Here's an attempt with GADTs: \begin{code} {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fglasgow-exts #-} data Succ a data Zero data Seq a b where Cons :: a -> Seq a b -> Seq a (Succ b) Nil :: Seq a Zero \end{code} Seems to work for me. Spencer Janssen On Oct 17, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Greg Buchholz wrote:
I'm wondering about creating a data structure that has the type of decreasing numbers. If I want an increasing list, it is easy...
{-# OPTIONS -fglasgow-exts #-}
data Succ a = S a deriving Show data Zero = Z deriving Show
data Seq' a = Cons' a (Seq' (Succ a)) | Nil' deriving Show
...which can be used like...
zero = Z one = S zero two = S one three = S two
increasing = Cons' zero (Cons' one (Cons' two (Cons' three Nil')))
...on the other hand, if I want the decreasing list, I can try...
class Pre a b | a -> b instance Pre (Succ a) a instance Pre Zero Zero
data (Pre a b) => Seq a = Cons a (Seq b) | Nil
decreasing = Cons three (Cons two (Cons one Nil))
...but that complains about "Not in scope: type variable `b'". Of course that makes perfect sense, but I'd like to know if there is a Haskell idiom that I'm missing in order to get this to work.
Thanks,
Greg Buchholz
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