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Data.Ix
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Stabilitystable
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The Ix class
Deriving Instances of Ix
Description
The Ix class is used to map a contiguous subrange of values in type onto integers. It is used primarily for array indexing (see Data.Array, Data.Array.IArray and Data.Array.MArray).
Synopsis
class Ord a => Ix a where
range :: (a, a) -> [a]
index :: (a, a) -> a -> Int
inRange :: (a, a) -> a -> Bool
rangeSize :: (a, a) -> Int
The Ix class
class Ord a => Ix a where

The Ix class is used to map a contiguous subrange of values in a type onto integers. It is used primarily for array indexing (see Data.Array, Data.Array.IArray and Data.Array.MArray).

The first argument (l,u) of each of these operations is a pair specifying the lower and upper bounds of a contiguous subrange of values.

An implementation is entitled to assume the following laws about these operations:

Minimal complete instance: range, index and inRange.

Methods
range :: (a, a) -> [a]
The list of values in the subrange defined by a bounding pair.
index :: (a, a) -> a -> Int
The position of a subscript in the subrange.
inRange :: (a, a) -> a -> Bool
Returns True the given subscript lies in the range defined the bounding pair.
rangeSize :: (a, a) -> Int
The size of the subrange defined by a bounding pair.
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Ix Bool
Ix Char
Ix Day
Ix IOMode
Ix Int
Ix Int16
Ix Int32
Ix Int64
Ix Int8
Ix Integer
Ix Month
Ix Ordering
Ix SeekMode
Ix Word
Ix Word16
Ix Word32
Ix Word64
Ix Word8
Ix ()
(Ix a, Ix b) => Ix (a, b)
(Ix a1, Ix a2, Ix a3) => Ix (a1, a2, a3)
(Ix a1, Ix a2, Ix a3, Ix a4) => Ix (a1, a2, a3, a4)
(Ix a1, Ix a2, Ix a3, Ix a4, Ix a5) => Ix (a1, a2, a3, a4, a5)
Deriving Instances of Ix

Derived instance declarations for the class Ix are only possible for enumerations (i.e. datatypes having only nullary constructors) and single-constructor datatypes, including arbitrarily large tuples, whose constituent types are instances of Ix.

  • For an enumeration, the nullary constructors are assumed to be numbered left-to-right with the indices being 0 to n-1 inclusive. This is the same numbering defined by the Enum class. For example, given the datatype:
	data Colour = Red | Orange | Yellow | Green | Blue | Indigo | Violet

we would have:

	range   (Yellow,Blue)        ==  [Yellow,Green,Blue]
	index   (Yellow,Blue) Green  ==  1
	inRange (Yellow,Blue) Red    ==  False
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