Re: Proposal: Bounded instance for IntSet (ticket #1953)

On 12/3/07, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

I would have used descending order; so it's not *completely* universal.

Well, using ascending order agrees with "show" and "toList". But you do have a point. If Ord used descending order, then (isSubsetOf a b) would imply (a <= b). With the existing Ord instance, (isSubsetOf a b) implies nothing about (compare a b).