Re: Laws for Show and Read?

Am 07.06.19 um 05:51 schrieb Carter Schonwald:

@Sven Panne you are correct, and its definitely true that 1) we dont have informative literals for +/- infity OR the bits in the nan. and those are truely informative in debugging, as IEEE float and show/read intend!

FWIW, my take is that the prefix (-) should be eliminated from Haskell as an operator (we have negate method for that). Instead, prefix + and - (no space allow in between) should be part of the syntax of numeric literals. This would solve a lot of problems, including the one mentioned.