[Haskell-cafe] Unnecessarily strict implementations

[Albert Y. C. Lai]

On 10-09-03 06:11 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> Yes, something this way. (<) suggests a notion of magnitude for me,
> which some orderings do not have.

Like for example -1000 has a larger magnitude than -0.0001, therefore 
you also reject the common ordering -1000 < -0.0001?

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.algebra.help/browse_frm/thread/87ca3963373ddeb5