[Haskell-cafe] Re: Elevator pitch for Haskell.

On 2007-09-08, Neil Mitchell wrote:

All these things are minor. The Prelude numeric classes aren't "broken" - they don't quite match what a mathematician might have picked, but its certainly easy enough to do numeric operations!

They can be used, but they don't break down in nice ways to make extensions easier, precisely because they don't match what a mathematician would have picked. They are indeed broken. -- Aaron Denney -><-