14 Aug
2016
14 Aug
'16
4 p.m.
Hi Tom, On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Tom wrote:
Is there a reason to not allow '.' as a separator for Rational's Read instance, so that both "1%2" and "0.5" can be read?
While it would make read :: String -> Rational more convenient, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to have read accept input that will never be produced by show :: Rational -> String. As an alternative, you can use readFloat [1] in Numeric. Regards, Sean [1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Numeric.html#v:readFlo...