[wish list] Lightweight extensible records for Haskell

2000-02-10 Thread Tom Pledger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [...] > > Could we please have lightweight extensible records for Haskell (as > in the paper by (Mark|Simon Peyton) Jones in the 1999 Haskell > Workshop). Seconded. Symmetric record catenation, as opposed to extensibility by one field at a time, would make the H

[wish list] Lightweight extensible records for Haskell

2000-02-10 Thread trb
This is an item for the Haskell Wish List. I'm posting it to the Haskell list, because that is the current wish-list policy. Could we please have lightweight extensible records for Haskell (as in the paper by (Mark|Simon Peyton) Jones in the 1999 Haskell Workshop). When that happens it will be

overlapping instances

2000-02-10 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
I continue arguing for the overlapping instances. To my >> It may know how to compute an operation in a more efficient way in >> the special case, and in a less efficient way in the generic case. Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 6 Feb 2000 > But in a case where it's on

Re: rounding in haskell

2000-02-10 Thread Ronny Wichers Schreur
Another kind of rounding can occur when a floating number is converted between different formats, for example with processors that internally use a higher precision. Consider the following two almost identical programs. - small powerOf2 exp | powe

Re: your mail

2000-02-10 Thread Lars Lundgren
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Stefan Friedel wrote: > Hi everybody, I have a problem. I'm new to haskell and > I have to write a function that takes the following > list and finds the average by using recursion and > adding the numbers together. I'm completely STUCK! > Thank you. > > > sales :: Int -> Fl