19 Nov
2007
19 Nov
'07
4:50 p.m.
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Nov 19, 2007, at 16:06 , Arthur van Leeuwen wrote:
here is a puzzle for you: try converting a System.Posix.Types.EpochTime into either a System.Time.CalendarTime or a Data.Time.Clock.UTCTime without going through read . show or a similar detour through strings.
fromEnum and/or toEnum are helpful for this kind of thing, and I am occasionally tempted to bind "cast = toEnum . fromEnum" because I need it so much.
Really? I'd like to know which examples these are. So far I suspected that 'cast' indicates not well chosen types.