25 Oct
2007
25 Oct
'07
7:25 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Don Stewart wrote:
claus.reinke:
how about using ghc's new overloaded strings for this?
"10111011"::Binary
there used to be a way to link to ghc head's docs, but i can't find it right now. the test is
http://darcs.haskell.org/testsuite/tests/ghc-regress/typecheck/should_compil...
and the xml docs would be
http://darcs.haskell.org/ghc/docs/users_guide/glasgow_exts.xml
Why not use a Num instance for Binary, with fromInteger :: Integer -> a, Yielding,
10111011 :: Binary
Overloaded numeric literals seem better here than strings :)
The result would be very unexpected - it reminds me much on C's octal interpretation of all number literals starting with a 0.