[ketil@ii.uib.no: Re: Enum class]

24 Oct 2001


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--Dylan Thurston

----- Forwarded message from Ketil Malde  -----

To: Pixel 
Cc: George Russell , haskell@haskell.org
Subject: Re: Enum class
From: Ketil Malde 

Pixel  writes:
...
i':: Integer
i'= 0x7fffffff
i_plus_1' = i+1
  -- ghc : 2147483648
  -- hugs: 2147483648
...
i_succ' = succ i'
  -- ghc : 2147483648
  -- hugs: -2147483648
I think Hugs is wrong.  Integer shouldn't wrap.