<div dir="ltr">Hi Harry,<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:51 AM, harry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:voldermort@hotmail.com" target="_blank">voldermort@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">There have been several discussions over the years regarding Enum instances<br>
for Float and Double. The conclusion each time appears to have been that<br>
there are no instances which are both sane and practical.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Do you have a link to some of those discussions? I have a vague memory of them but can no longer remember the specifics.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I would like to propose that these instances be removed from Haskell 2014.<br>
This may be covered by the various alternative prelude and number class<br>
proposals, but they are much more ambitious and less likely to make it into<br>
the standard in the short term.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I don't see much gain. It will break previously working code and the workaround to the breakage will likely be manually reimplementing enumFromTo in each instance.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>Cheers,</div><div style>Johan</div><div style> </div></div></div></div>