[Haskell-cafe] ANN: unfoldable-0.4.0

[wren ng thornton]

On 4/28/12 12:10 PM, Sjoerd Visscher wrote:
> But I don't think an unfoldable class for * types is that interesting. Any type that would be an instance could also be in instance of Bounded and Enum:

In a technical sense, yes, but not necessarily in a semantic sense. 
Usually Bounded and Enum are expected to respect the natural ordering on 
the type; and, given Eq, they induce an ordering on the type (albeit an 
inefficient one). But there are plenty of cases where you don't have a 
natural ordering, or where it would be more efficient to enumerate 
values in an unnatural order if the goal is just to get them all. 
Unfortunately, we don't have a good way of distinguishing between 
natural vs ad-hoc enumerations/orderings, so this sort of thing gets 
handled poorly on case-by-case bases.

Though I agree that Biunfoldable is a lot more interesting than Unfoldable0.

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