Exercise – Making a Card Deck Type
Let's now try to implement a data type that will represent a deck of cards. First, we can think about what type would be fitting for a card deck – a list of cards would be a good representation. But then what type is fitting for a single card? Each card should have a rank and a suit so we can make another type for cards that has the type of a tuple (Rank, Suit). Let's start at the lowest level, the Rank and Suit type. Remember that we already defined the Suit type, but we will now also derive the Show class for it:
which leaves us with the task of defining Rank for which we can also use nullary constructors and also derive some built-in classes:
We can then already use methods of those classes on the Rank type:
We have the Rank and Suit types now, and we can simply define the type of Card as a type synonym for a tuple of (Rank, Suit):
Similarly, we can define a deck of cards as a type synonym for a list of Card types:
And we can now build a deck of cards using that function:
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