Add 'e' to Floating typeclass

[Carter Schonwald]

There’s at least  two reasons why I think this would be a bad idea

1) everyone uses e as a local variable name, or at least it happens often
enough. This would breaklots of code

2 ) I’m not sure if there’s ever a better definition than exp 1.  Is there?


3) more strongly , does every instance in the Wild give a full ish
precision exact up to representation limits answer at exp 1,?

I only thought of the name space issue after I stated writing this email ,
but I think that kills it.. but I am genuinely curious : can we treat exp 1
as being the actual definition for any all quality instances ?

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 12:14 AM chessai . <chessai1996 at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have the 'pi' constant in the floating typeclass and some trigonometric
> functions, as well as things like exp/log/expm1/log1p.
>
> Why not provide an 'e' constant?
>
> A default implementation could just be 'exp 1'.
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