11 Aug
2011
11 Aug
'11
3:43 p.m.
On 8/10/11 9:53 AM, Paterson, Ross wrote:
Yet another restructuring of the Prelude numeric classes on algebraic lines, proposed for a revision of the Haskell Prelude:
Very nice in its simplicity, but it suffers from the same problem as all the other attempts I've seen. Namely it ignores the importance of semirings and runs headlong towards fields and beyond. The {(-), abs, signum, negate} methods really must be broken out from (+). -- Live well, ~wren