In haskell-cafe, Alastair Reid wrote: > > Jerzy Karczmarczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Rationals in Hugs were always a bit obscure. What do you think, what > > is the Rational form of 2.3 ? (GHCi says 23/10). > > > The answer is: > > > 2589569785738035 % 1125899906842624 > > > (Old Hugs, Feb. 2001) > > I'm afraid the new release won't fix this. > > Once the release is out the door and things settle down a bit (both in > Hugs and in my personal life), I'd like to cleanup the Hugs' internals > which have gotten quite confused by layer upon layer of backward > compatability code. Practical benefits I hope for are: > > - Make Float mean 'C float' and Double mean 'C double'. > Most of the code is actually in Hugs already but it was disabled > because of some long-irrelevant issue involving the foreign > function interface.
So it seems that double-precision can (and should) be re-enabled. Alastair (in another place) counsels caution. But it's my impression that several people are using a version of Hugs with USE_DOUBLE_PRECISION set to 1 (Jerzy clearly is) with no problems, so this should be safe. It also passes the Hugs test suite (modulo the extra precision). Any testimonials? _______________________________________________ Hugs-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-users
