Just for the record,
Cobol has a long history of specifying local rounding options.
More recently, the options for rounding are elaborated in the context of
adding standard arithmetic.
http://www.cobolportal.com/j4/files/05-0152.doc
Ralf
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John Meacham:
>On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:05:39AM -0400, David Menendez wrote:
>> In principle, you could use seperate types to distinguish floats with
>> different rounding modes, but I imagine this would be difficult or
>> annoying to implement.
>
>I think it would make more sense to have differe
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:05:39AM -0400, David Menendez wrote:
> In principle, you could use seperate types to distinguish floats with
> different rounding modes, but I imagine this would be difficult or
> annoying to implement.
I think it would make more sense to have different operations for ea
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Regarding argument 1: the value of |maxBound :: Int| is also the
> function of the environment. Haskell98 Report says [p82, Section
> 6.4]
>
>The finite-precision integer type Int covers at least the range
>[ - 2^29 , 2^29 - 1 ]. As Int is an instance of the B
The question of getArgs as a pure function has already been
debated on this list back in January:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2005-January/015184.html
The topic seems worth revisiting as it expands to a bigger, and
perhaps, a bleaker picture.
To recap, there were two arguments fo
