G'day all. On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:10:28PM -0500, Matthew Donadio wrote:
> This is my biggest gripe with Haskell, at least for what I do. The > numeric class system is good, but it assumes that the sub-classes are > distict, where in fact integers are a proper subset of reals, which > are a proper subset of complex numbers. Haskell Integers are not a proper subset of Haskell Floats or Doubles. Haskell does not support real numbers. It's a similar problem with C/C++. The "long" type is almost never a proper subset of "float", but C will nevertheless happily convert it for you without you asking, potentially losing precision in the process. Cheers, Andrew Bromage _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell