Portability | portable |
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Stability | stable |
Maintainer | libraries@haskell.org |
Safe Haskell | Trustworthy |
Data.Ord
Description
Orderings
Synopsis
Documentation
class Eq a => Ord a whereSource
The Ord
class is used for totally ordered datatypes.
Instances of Ord
can be derived for any user-defined
datatype whose constituent types are in Ord
. The declared order
of the constructors in the data declaration determines the ordering
in derived Ord
instances. The Ordering
datatype allows a single
comparison to determine the precise ordering of two objects.
Minimal complete definition: either compare
or <=
.
Using compare
can be more efficient for complex types.
Instances
The Down
type allows you to reverse sort order conveniently. A value of type
contains a value of type Down
aa
(represented as
).
If Down
aa
has an
instance associated with it then comparing two
values thus wrapped will give you the opposite of their normal sort order.
This is particularly useful when sorting in generalised list comprehensions,
as in: Ord
then sortWith by
Down
x
Constructors