Re: Proposal: Remove Show and Eq superclasses of Num

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Paterson, Ross wrote:

Those  who merely use the numeric classes in type signatures or call their  methods should be unaffected.

Then Eq and Show must be superclasses of Num forever, which is the wart Ian wants to address. I think that these superclasses should be removed *and* the classes should be restructured along the lines of yap. I don't care in which order, so +1 from me. Sebastian