[Haskell-cafe] Dividing integers?

[Jon Fairbairn]

On 2004-03-18 at 15:08+0100 Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> "Matias Hernandez" <matiash at artech.com.uy> writes:
> 
> > I mean, apparently "/" is not defined for integers but I
> > don't know how to "cast" the result of the length function
> > into a Double...
> >
> > Prelude> (length [1,2]) / 3
> 
> Literal 2 means fromIntegral 2, but length::[a]->Int.

Note also

Data.List.genericLength :: Num a => [b] -> a


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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk