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Today's Topics:
1. Type constructor (mike h)
2. Re: Type constructor (David McBride)
3. Re: Type constructor (mike h)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 19:21:14 +0000
From: mike h <mike_k_hough...@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Type constructor
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Hi,
I’m modelling fractions with a view to looking at continued fractions and I
have this recursive structure.
type Numerator = Integer
data Fraction = Numbr Integer | F Numerator Fraction
in ghci I do
λ-> :t F 1 (Numbr 2)
F 1 (Numbr 2) :: Fraction
which is fine. But what surprised me is that it also works without using Numbr
e.g.
λ-> :t F 1 2
F 1 2 :: Fraction
why is this?
Thanks
Mike
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 14:31:50 -0500
From: David McBride <toa...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Type constructor
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The only thing I can think of is that you wrote a Num instance for
Fraction. That allows it to represent a fraction as a literal 2 because
you can create a fraction from an integer via fromInteger.
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:21 PM, mike h <mike_k_hough...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m modelling fractions with a view to looking at continued fractions and
> I have this recursive structure.
>
> type Numerator = Integer
> data Fraction = Numbr Integer | F Numerator Fraction
>
>
> in ghci I do
>
> λ-> :t F 1 (Numbr 2)
> F 1 (Numbr 2) :: Fraction
>
> which is fine. But what surprised me is that it also works without using
> Numbr e.g.
>
> λ-> :t F 1 2
> F 1 2 :: Fraction
>
> why is this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 20:26:41 +0000
From: mike h <mike_k_hough...@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Type constructor
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Duh!
Give that man a ceeeegar!
Thanks
:)
> On 8 Nov 2017, at 19:31, David McBride <toa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The only thing I can think of is that you wrote a Num instance for Fraction.
> That allows it to represent a fraction as a literal 2 because you can create
> a fraction from an integer via fromInteger.
>
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:21 PM, mike h <mike_k_hough...@yahoo.co.uk
> <mailto:mike_k_hough...@yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m modelling fractions with a view to looking at continued fractions and I
> have this recursive structure.
>
> type Numerator = Integer
> data Fraction = Numbr Integer | F Numerator Fraction
>
>
> in ghci I do
>
> λ-> :t F 1 (Numbr 2)
> F 1 (Numbr 2) :: Fraction
>
> which is fine. But what surprised me is that it also works without using
> Numbr e.g.
>
> λ-> :t F 1 2
> F 1 2 :: Fraction
>
> why is this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
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