25 Oct
2007
25 Oct
'07
4:40 p.m.
claus.reinke:
From my point of view, the difference between 0b10111011 and (bin[1,0,1,1,1,0,1,1]) is 22-10 that is 12 characters.
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 :) -- Don