<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Aleksey Khudyakov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexey.skladnoy@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexey.skladnoy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Num inherits from Eq, so Float couldn't have an instance for Num if we<br>
didn't have that Eq instance.<br>
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No more since GHC 7.4. But Eq is indeed superclass of Ord and it Ord is used a lot.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>...but Float's Ord instance is even more dubious than its Eq. </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>
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