Joachim Breitner
Hi,
I noticed http://hackage.haskell.org/package/storable-complex on hackage. To avoid library proliferation, is there a chance to get this instance into base?
When I first made the package, there was a lot of resistance to the idea on the grounds that there were other representations for complex values, therefore it was not something to standardize. The mere practicality that C, C++, and Fortran all chose the same representation for their native complex type was not considered to be convincing at that time. MATLAB, for example, chose a different representation, though it really only works to represent arrays of complex.
Jed, would you be interested in getting a proper http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions process on the way?
I haven't been active in Haskell-land for a while and I'm not sure I have time to lead the effort on this front. I think it would be useful to move the instance to base and I'm happy to help out as needed.