RE: Proposal: Make gcd total

2011-05-26 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
23:48 | To: haskell-prime@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Proposal: Make gcd total | | On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 08:24:52PM +0200, Daniel Fischer wrote: | | If it's considered to be a small enough change so a libraries proposal | would be sufficient, all the better, but if not, I'd like to pursue

Re: Proposal: Make gcd total

2011-05-25 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 03:57:06 I wrote: Following http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/Process#Proposals I hereby volunteer to become the proposal owner. So, how's this going to continue? It sparked a renewed go at simplifying the libraries proposal process, but since it

Re: Proposal: Make gcd total

2011-05-25 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 08:24:52PM +0200, Daniel Fischer wrote: If it's considered to be a small enough change so a libraries proposal would be sufficient, all the better, but if not, I'd like to pursue the haskell-prime process further. My understanding is that for changes to libraries

Re: Proposal: Make gcd total

2011-05-10 Thread Judah Jacobson
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@googlemail.com wrote: I would like to propose the elimination of the special error case gcd 0 0 = error Prelude.gcd: gcd 0 0 is undefined to replace it with gcd 0 0 = 0 (which would be an automatic consequence of removing

Re: Proposal: Make gcd total

2011-05-09 Thread Cale Gibbard
+1 On 9 May 2011 19:11, Jacques Carette care...@mcmaster.ca wrote: +1 Jacques On 09/05/2011 6:49 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote: I would like to propose the elimination of the special error case gcd 0 0 = error Prelude.gcd: gcd 0 0 is undefined to replace it with gcd 0 0 = 0 (which would