Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why 'round' does not just round numbers ?

You're assuming newbies from a bad educational system that hasn't taught them how to round properly. :) -- Lennart On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Bart Massey wrote:

I think given that the Haskell 98 Report is pretty explicit about the behavior of round, we're stuck with it, but I don't like it. It's yet another tiny impediment to Haskell newbies, as demonstrated by the original post. (I'm not at all opposed to having a round-to-even function; it should just be called roundHalfEven to make it clear what it does. If it were up to me, I would probably elide the name "round" altogether in favor of roundHalfEven.)