Re: Proposal: add conversion functions to Data.Fixed.

1 Dec 2012


      On 01/12/12 12:11, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
...
Jeff Shaw wrote:
In my work I've run into an annoyance: Data.Fixed.Fixed does not
        have a
        Binary instance in the binary package.
Ashley Yakeley wrote:
Just to be clear, this is a modification of binary, not Data.Fixed
    in base, is that correct?
Hmm, I had understood just the opposite:
that the proposal was to add fromFixed/toFixed
to Data.Fixed, motivated by the difficulty of things
like writing a Binary instance.
Oh yes, you're right. But I don't think it's necessary.

-- Ashley