Re: [Hugs-users] overloading operators

2005-04-13 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
Alfredo Paz-Valderrama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but whe the Thompson's book says: Literals are not overloaded, Here is what the Haskell 98 report says, in chapter 3 on page 18: An integer literal represents th

Re: [Hugs-users] overloading operators

2005-04-13 Thread Richard A. O'Keefe
Alfredo Paz-Valderrama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is confused by / in Haskell. 1 / 2 I get 0.5 by answer, but the / operator signature is: float -> float -> float No, it certainly is NOT that. At the Hugs prompt, type :type (/) and you will see the

Re: [Hugs-users] overloading operators

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Mittwoch, 13. April 2005 06:04 schrieb Alfredo Paz-Valderrama: > Ok > but whe the Thompson's book says: > > > Literals are not overloaded, there is no automatic conversion from Int to > Float. .. we will receive an error message if we type > > (floor

Re: [Hugs-users] overloading operators

2005-04-13 Thread Ross Paterson
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:04:14PM -0500, Alfredo Paz-Valderrama wrote: > but whe the Thompson's book says: > > > Literals are not overloaded, there is no automatic conversion from Int to > Float. ^^^ My copy says (on p45) "Al