Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is toRational a method of Real?

On 5 August 2010 10:15, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

You're right.  It's bad to have toRational in Real.  It's also bad to have Show and Eq as superclasses to Num.

I understand why it's bad to have Show as a superclass, but why Eq? Because it stops you from using functions as numbers, etc. ? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com