30 May
2013
30 May
'13
3:54 a.m.
On Wed, 29 May 2013, wren ng thornton wrote:
-------------------------------------------- -- prelude-safeenum 0.1.0 --------------------------------------------
The prelude-safeenum package offers a safe alternative to the Prelude's Enum class in order to render it safe. While we're at it, we also generalize the notion of enumeration to support types which can only be enumerated in one direction.
I am concerned that we are using 'safe' for two very different meanings: 'safe' in the sense of SafeHaskell and unsafePerformanceIO and 'safe' in the sense of the package 'safe' and your safeenum. For my taste, there is no need to coin new terms for partiality and totality. Could we just call total functions total instead of safe?