RE: question of decimal pointed literals

2001-04-20 Thread Alastair Reid
Lennart: > There is no problem, [the meaning of numeric literals is] clearly specified by the >report. > (There is a problem with Hugs, it doesn't implement literals properly. > Or has that ancient bug been fixed?) Lennart is absolutely right, the report is quite unambiguous and there is (still

Re: c2hs on ghc5?

2001-04-20 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
Jens-Ulrik Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > I checked c2hs-cvs a couple of days ago, and am wondering if > anyone has any patches yet for building c2hs under ghc5? I > guess it is just a matter of tweaking the config files a > bit. So if noone else has had time yet, I will try to do it > s

Re: question of decimal pointed literals

2001-04-20 Thread Lennart Augustsson
"S.D.Mechveliani" wrote: > Can we solve and close the problem of the meaning of decimal pointed > leterals? There is no problem, it's clearly specified by the report. (There is a problem with Hugs, it doesn't implement literals properly. Or has that ancient bug been fixed?) > > "The floating p

question of decimal pointed literals

2001-04-20 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
Can we solve and close the problem of the meaning of decimal pointed leterals? To my | People wrote about toRational (0.9) == 9%10 = False | ... | Probably, the source of a `bug' is a language agreement that the | input is in decimal representation (`0.9') and its meaning