Re: Precision of `Double's in Hugs

2002-01-12 Thread Scott Turner
On Saturday 12 January 2002 17:35, you wrote: (I'm just a new convertee to the ways of Functional Programming, so please go easy on me! ^_^;;) Welcome. Hope you find it as fun and useful as I. Why is it that `Double's in Hugs only seem to have the same precision as a `Float'? I've some code

Re: Precision of `Double's in Hugs

2002-01-12 Thread Liyang Hu
Evening, Thanks for the near-instantaneous reply! On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:59:02PM -0500, Scott Turner wrote: Welcome. Hope you find it as fun and useful as I. I'm sure I will! My wee adventure into the world of functional programming has been nothing short of delightful so far, and there's

Re: Precision of `Double's in Hugs

2002-01-12 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:43:32AM +, Liyang Hu wrote: 'fraid I've been too spoilt by Debian, haven't built anything from source in ages ... I'll notify Hugs' package maintainer and see if I can convince him/her to apply this ... No trouble at all; I feel this should be the default as