16 May
2013
16 May
'13
5:26 p.m.
On Thu, 16 May 2013 23:15:33 +0200, you wrote:
Hello everyone,
I was playing with Word8 and list comprehensions and the following examples came up. I have to admit the behavior looks quite strange because it does not seem to be consistent. Can someone shed some light on reason behind some of these outputs?
When you say <some positive integer> :: [Word8] what you're effectively saying is <some positive integer> `mod` 256 because that's what fits into a slot that's 8 bits wide. So: 1000 `mod` 256 = 232 10000 `mod` 256 = 16 and so on. -Steve Schafer