Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why aren't Float and Double Bounded?

Josh Lee wrote:

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:41:59 -0500 Isaac Dupree wrote:

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Henning Thielemann wrote:

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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Jason Dusek wrote:

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Among numeric types, it seems that only integer types are Bounded.

Maybe because IEEE format supports Infinity?

therefore, maxBound is Infinity and minBound negative infinity?

Using Infinity would go against the meaning of Enum.

Perhaps. But we're talking about Bounded, not Enum. ;-)