Actually, it is a constant: piDecimalExpansion :: String.
A translation from piDecimalExpansion :: String to pi :: Floating a => a
is already well defined via read :: Read a => String -> a
Any definition of pi in the Floating class that differs from (read
piDecimalExpansion) is erroneous. I propose the above as the default
definition of pi.
Dan Weston
ok wrote:
Someone wrote about pi:
| But it is just a numerical constant, no need to put it into a class, and
nothing to do with the type_classing of related functions. "e" is not
std. defined, and it doesn't kill people who use exponentials.
But it *isn't* "A" numerical constant.
It is a *different* constant for each instance of Floating.
In this respect, it's not unlike floatRange, which is just "a"
constant (a pair of integers), but is different for each
RealFloat instance.
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