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CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD ><FONT SIZE="6" >Data.Bool</FONT ></TD ><TD ALIGN="right" ><TABLE CLASS="narrow" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="infohead" >Portability</TD ><TD CLASS="infoval" >portable</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="infohead" >Stability</TD ><TD CLASS="infoval" >experimental</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="infohead" >Maintainer</TD ><TD CLASS="infoval" >libraries@haskell.org</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="section4" ><B >Contents</B ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ><DL ><DT ><A HREF="#1" >Booleans </A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT ><A HREF="#2" >Operations </A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" >Description</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" >The <TT ><A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TT > type and related functions. </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" >Synopsis</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="body" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><SPAN CLASS="keyword" >data</SPAN > <A HREF="#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="body" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" >= <A HREF="#v%3AFalse" >False</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" >| <A HREF="#v%3ATrue" >True</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3A%26%26" >(&&)</A > :: <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3A%7C%7C" >(||)</A > :: <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3Anot" >not</A > :: <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s8" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="#v%3Aotherwise" >otherwise</A > :: <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section1" ><A NAME="1" ><A NAME="1" >Booleans </A ></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><SPAN CLASS="keyword" >data</SPAN > <A NAME="t:Bool" ><A NAME="t%3ABool" ></A ></A ><B >Bool</B > </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="body" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="section4" >Constructors</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="body" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="arg" ><A NAME="v:False" ><A NAME="v%3AFalse" ></A ></A ><B >False</B ></TD ><TD CLASS="rdoc" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="arg" ><A NAME="v:True" ><A NAME="v%3ATrue" ></A ></A ><B >True</B ></TD ><TD CLASS="rdoc" ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section4" ><IMG SRC="minus.gif" CLASS="coll" ONCLICK="toggle(this,'i:Bool')" ALT="show/hide" > Instances</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="body" ><DIV ID="i:Bool" STYLE="display:block;" ><TABLE CLASS="vanilla" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="0" ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Prelude.html#t%3ABounded" >Bounded</A > <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Prelude.html#t%3AEnum" >Enum</A > <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Data-Eq.html#t%3AEq" >Eq</A > <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Data-Data.html#t%3AData" >Data</A > <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Data-Ord.html#t%3AOrd" >Ord</A > <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Text-Read.html#t%3ARead" >Read</A > <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Text-Show.html#t%3AShow" >Show</A > <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Data-Ix.html#t%3AIx" >Ix</A > <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Data-Typeable.html#t%3ATypeable" >Typeable</A > <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A HREF="Foreign-Storable.html#t%3AStorable" >Storable</A > <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="section2" ><A NAME="2" ><A NAME="2" >Operations </A ></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:&&" ><A NAME="v%3A%26%26" ></A ></A ><B >(&&)</B > :: <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" >Boolean "and" </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:||" ><A NAME="v%3A%7C%7C" ></A ></A ><B >(||)</B > :: <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" >Boolean "or" </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:not" ><A NAME="v%3Anot" ></A ></A ><B >not</B > :: <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A > -> <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" >Boolean "not" </TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="decl" ><A NAME="v:otherwise" ><A NAME="v%3Aotherwise" ></A ></A ><B >otherwise</B > :: <A HREF="Data-Bool.html#t%3ABool" >Bool</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="doc" ><P ><TT ><A HREF="Data-Bool.html#v%3Aotherwise" >otherwise</A ></TT > is defined as the value <TT ><A HREF="Data-Bool.html#v%3ATrue" >True</A ></TT >. It helps to make guards more readable. eg. </P ><PRE > f x | x < 0 = ... | otherwise = ... </PRE ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="s15" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD CLASS="botbar" >Produced by <A HREF="http://www.haskell.org/haddock/" >Haddock</A > version 2.6.1</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></BODY ></HTML >