Oops -- I'd incorrectly assumed that Haskell guarantees Float & Double to have infinities. Thanks, - Conal<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 2, 2007 9:50 AM, Lennart Augustsson <<a href="mailto:lennart@augustsson.net">
lennart@augustsson.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But that only makes sense for floating point types that have -Infinity and +Infinity.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Dec 2, 2007 5:39 PM, Conal Elliott <<a href="mailto:conal@conal.net" target="_blank">conal@conal.net</a>> wrote:
<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Currently Float & Double do not have standard Bounded instances. Is there any reason not to use the following?
<br><br>instance Bounded Float where { minBound = -1/0; maxBound = 1/0 }<br>instance Bounded Double where { minBound = -1/0; maxBound = 1/0 }
<br><br>If I don't hear objections, I'll submit a ticket and re-send a proposal note.<br><font color="#888888"><br>- Conal<br><br>
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