int to float problem

[Zdenek Dvorak]

Hello,

[snip]
>Try
>
>intToFloat :: Int -> Float
>intToFloat n = fromInteger (toInteger n)

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>Use the Prelude function realToFrac.

it sometimes happens to me that I must spend some time browsing
prelude to devise somethink like this; it might be useful to have
a library for this, that would define

class Coerce a b where
  coerce :: a->b

of course this cannot work without multiparametric type classes.

Zdenek

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