On Nov 19, 2007, at 16:06 , Arthur van Leeuwen wrote:

here is a puzzle for you: try converting a System.Posix.Types.EpochTime into either a System.Time.CalendarTime or a Data.Time.Clock.UTCTime without going through
read . show or a similar detour through strings.

fromEnum and/or toEnum are helpful for this kind of thing, and I am occasionally tempted to bind "cast = toEnum . fromEnum" because I need it so much.

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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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