29 Dec
2008
29 Dec
'08
11:46 p.m.
On 2008 Dec 29, at 23:27, Justin Goguen wrote:
My purpose is to have operations such as ["aa".."bc"] be possible, with its result being ["aa", "ab", "ac" ..<snip>.. "ba", "bb", "bc"]
The example you provided for fromEnum seems to break down after a string length of about 5 or so.
It will; toEnum and fromEnum are defined in terms of Int, not Integer, so they'll run into a maximum bounds issue. (See section 6.3.4 of http://haskell.org/onlinereport/basic.html) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH