William Lee Irwin III wrote:
This does not work as expected on Complex numbers due to some odd
typechecking hassles apparently associated with abs. ...
Ross Paterson wrote:
abs :: Num a => a -> a, whereas you want something that returns a Double.
You could define
class Norm a where
norm :: a -> Double
instance Norm Float where
norm = realToFrac . abs
instance Norm Double where
norm = abs
instance RealFloat a => Norm (Complex a) where
norm = realToFrac . magnitude
and use norm instead of abs.
Thanks; this appears to do the trick for me. Something of this kind
would be useful to have in the std. libraries, at least for me.
Provided you work only with one type for norms, say, Double.
In general, the construction of, say Normed Vector Spaces with
any type for the ('carrier') elements, and any norm compatible
with the elements would require multi-parametric classes.
With dependencies, of course...
Since they are not *so* old, and the numerics in Haskell have
been frozen a long time ago, Haskell libraries from the math
point of view evolve slowly. But people are interested in that, and
the work will continue.
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
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