[GHC] #8697: Type rationals

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#8697: Type rationals
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        Reporter:  MikeIzbicki       |            Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |           Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |        Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |          Version:  7.6.3
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Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |       Difficulty:  Unknown
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Comment (by carter):

 so lets decouple this a teeny bit:

  a) having good syntactic support for writing numerical literals at the
 type level: Integers, Nats, Rationals (possibly with floating point style
 notation)

  b) having a satisfactory type model underneath that supports the
 computations you want to do.


 currently in GHC those two are conflated, and perhaps they should be
 decoupled!

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