Johan Tibell johan.tibell@... writes:
If we truly believe that the instance is dangerous for users (and not
merely for people who don't understand floating point arithmetic on
computers), then we should add a deprecation pragma to the instance and
discourage its use. But what would the
Tillmann Rendel rendel@... writes:
In general, I would be against removing features just because they are
confusing for beginners. I don't think that's a good design principle
for a language that is primarily targeted at professional programmers
and computer scientists.
They're confusing
There have been several discussions over the years regarding Enum instances
for Float and Double. The conclusion each time appears to have been that
there are no instances which are both sane and practical.
I would like to propose that these instances be removed from Haskell 2014.
This may be
Johan Tibell johan.tibell@... writes:
I don't see much gain. It will break previously working code and the
workaround to the breakage will likely be manually reimplementing enumFromTo
in each instance.
I forgot the main point of my post :-)
The primary motivation for removing these instances
