[Haskell-beginners] The numeric type stack

[Antoine Latter]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> While haskell's type system is usually a delight to work with.
> However, every once and a while I need to do mixed mode programming in
> spite of Kernighan and Plauger's advice, and wind up cursing the
> numeric type stack. I was wondering it there was a writeup on it
> somewhere? Preferably one aimed at practical programming. A chapter in
> Real World Haskell would have been ideal, but it doesn't seem to
> exist.
>

For shear comprehensiveness, there's always the language report:
http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch6.html#x13-1350006.4

I don't know of anything that lays out and introduction with best
practices and common pitfalls.

Antoine

>   Thanks,
>   <mike
>
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