[Haskell-cafe] Newbie question -- fromInt

[Cale Gibbard]

The function fromInt is no longer around. Use fromIntegral instead,
which works with Int and Integer.

On 4/28/05, Tim Rowe <digitig at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working through "The craft of functional programming" , and I've
> come to excercise 3.14: "Give a function to return the average of
> three integers".
> 
> My attempt at an answer is:
> 
> averageThree :: Int -> Int -> Int -> Float
> averageThree a b c = fromInt(a + b + c) / 3
> 
> but when I try to load this file I get an error, "Undefined variable fromInt".
> 
> I get the error on winHugs version Nov 2003 and on Hugs version Nov
> 2003 (in both cases in Hugs mode).  Curiously, when I found a machine
> with an old (2002) version of Hugs on it the file loaded fine.
> 
> Has something changed between versions of Hugs, is my code reasonable,
> and how /do/ I convert an Int to a Float in Hugs version Nov 2003?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> --
> Tim Rowe
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