Hi Harry, On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:51 AM, harry <[email protected]> wrote:
> There have been several discussions over the years regarding Enum instances > for Float and Double. The conclusion each time appears to have been that > there are no instances which are both sane and practical. > Do you have a link to some of those discussions? I have a vague memory of them but can no longer remember the specifics. > I would like to propose that these instances be removed from Haskell 2014. > This may be covered by the various alternative prelude and number class > proposals, but they are much more ambitious and less likely to make it into > the standard in the short term. > I don't see much gain. It will break previously working code and the workaround to the breakage will likely be manually reimplementing enumFromTo in each instance. Cheers, Johan
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