[ghc-steering-committee] Proposal: Accept proposal 37, Hex Float literals

Joachim Breitner mail at joachim-breitner.de
Tue Feb 28 21:47:05 UTC 2017


Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2017, 15:13 -0600 schrieb Christopher Allen:
> This is CLC territory but for backwards compatibility we might
> suggest that a newtype be offered for re-obtaining the old Read
> instance for Double as a temporary compatibility affordance. (2-3
> releases?)

not sure how useful that is. It will not easily be used in derived Read
instances of datatypes that use Double.

I’d like to hear from someone who has an actual use case for this
first.

Greetings,
Joachim

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