Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Sillyness in the standard libs.

Aaron Denney wrote:

On 2007-11-19, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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As I understand it, it's widely recognised that Haskell's current numeric class hierachy is broken (or at best, not very well chosen), but nobody came up with a better suggestion yet.

Oh, there are /lots/ of suggestions. Perhaps too many. But this is one area that could really be improved by the use of ATs or MPTCs with fundeps, and that's stalled some of the concrete proposals, as what exactly is happening for Haskell' isn't too clear.

Er, yes... what *he* said. (I understand there are a couple of similar proposals that have gone nowhere because it's not clear what the best design choice is. E.g., there ought to be some generalisation of the words and lines functions, but there isn't, because nobody can decide on the best generalisation to pick.)