If the change is adopted, could the design rational (including why Rational-only) be included as a comment? It's so easily lost! Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: libraries-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:libraries-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf | Of Ian Lynagh | Sent: 25 September 2010 16:03 | To: libraries@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Proposal: Better power for Rational | | On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 03:36:42PM +0200, Daniel Fischer wrote: | > | > I'm not principally against changing that behaviour, but changing the | > results of functions is a big undertaking versus just improving | > performance. | | Oh, but as this is done with a rule rather than a class method, it would | make the result non-deterministic, depending on whether the rule fires. | So yes, restricting it to Rational sounds like the right thing to do. | | | Thanks | Ian | | _______________________________________________ | Libraries mailing list | Libraries@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries