RFC: decodeFloat

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 16:29, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:

> A new function could return something like
>    data DecodedFloat = Decoded Integer Int
>                      | NaN
>                      | Infinity
>                      | NegativeInfinity
>                      | NegativeZero
>

Users who need strict IEE754 compatibility passing a NaN through will
require the NaN constructor to return a raw representation of the NaN.

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