[Haskell-cafe] Why aren't Float and Double Bounded?

[Andrew Coppin]

Josh Lee wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:41:59 -0500
> Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
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>   
>> Henning Thielemann wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Jason Dusek wrote:
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>>>> Among numeric types, it seems that only integer types are Bounded.
>>>>         
>>> Maybe because IEEE format supports Infinity?
>>>       
>> therefore, maxBound is Infinity and minBound negative infinity?
>>     
>
> Using Infinity would go against the meaning of Enum.

Perhaps. But we're talking about Bounded, not Enum. ;-)