[project @ 2002-08-29 16:39:42 by stolz]

- Haddock-ise with comments from library report
- The chapter "Deriving Instances of Ix" doesn't end up in the "Contents"
    section (yet), although it should.

1 files changed, 40 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libraries/base/Data/Ix.hs b/libraries/base/Data/Ix.hs
index 54d6b2e0fa..c9ebe9287e 100644
--- a/libraries/base/Data/Ix.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/Data/Ix.hs
@@ -10,8 +10,23 @@
 --
 -- Class of index types.
 --
+-- The "Ix" class is used to map a continuous subrange of values in a type onto
+-- integers. It is used primarily for array indexing (see Section 6
+-- <http://www.haskell.org/onlinelibrary/array.html#arrays>). The "Ix"
+-- class contains the methods range, index, and inRange. The 'index' operation
+-- maps a bounding pair, which defines the lower and upper bounds of the range,
+-- and a subscript, to an integer. The 'range' operation enumerates all
+-- subscripts; the 'inRange' operation tells whether a particular subscript
+-- lies in the range defined by a bounding pair.
+-- 
+-- An implementation is entitled to assume the following laws about these
+-- operations: 
+-- 
+-- >        range (l,u) !! index (l,u) i == i   -- when i is in range
+-- 
+-- >        inRange (l,u) i == i `elem` range (l,u)
+-- 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
 module Data.Ix
     (
 	Ix
@@ -32,6 +47,30 @@ module Data.Ix
     --  ...
 
     -- Implementation checked wrt. Haskell 98 lib report, 1/99.
+
+    -- * 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
+    -- 
+    -- * For single-constructor datatypes, the derived instance declarations
+    -- are as shown for tuples in Figure 1
+    -- <http://www.haskell.org/onlinelibrary/ix.html#prelude-index>.
+
     ) where
 
 import Prelude