Friday, April 04, 2008

Something I wish terminated but doesn't

Sure,
data Weekday = Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat deriving Enum is fine.

But wouldn't it be fun if this actually worked?
let as@[sun, mon, tue, wed, thur, fri, sat] = [1..length as], unfortunately attempt to evaluate mon for instance, and it doesn't terminate (at least as far as I know, I didn't wait for all eternity for it to finish). Needs -XDWIM I suppose.

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