28 May
2008
28 May
'08
9:40 p.m.
On 28 May 2008, at 1:14 PM, Twan van Laarhoven wrote:
apfelmus wrote:
In any case, I prefer Maybe here as well because it's straightforward and simple. Every other abstraction is just a lift away.
Following this line of reasoning: why is 1 syntactic sugar for fromIntegral 1? If 1 has type Integer then the generic value is just a fromIntergal away!
That's a good point the other way --- I suspect, like most things Num, numeric literals were rather grand-fathered in than designed intentionally that way. jcc