On 2/14/06, Ben Rudiak-Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just realized that the class Ord should have an additional method:
>
> class Eq a => Ord a where
> compares :: a -> a -> Ordering -> Ordering
> compares x y d = case compare x y of { EQ -> d ; o -> o }
> ...
>
> This would make writing Ord instances much easier:
>
> instance (Ord a, Ord b, Ord c, Ord d) => Ord (a,b,c,d) where
> compares (a1,b1,c1,d1) (a2,b2,c2,d2) =
> compares a1 a2 . compares b1 b2 . compares c1 c2 . compares d1 d2
I think you meant compare d1 d2 for that last one.
Would there be any advantage to this being a member of Ord instead of
just a function in the prelude?
/g
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