[Haskell-cafe] Proposal for restructuring Number classes

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Andrew U. Frank wrote:

> there has been discussions on and off indicating problems with the structure
> of the number classes in the prelude. i have found a discussion paper by
> mechveliani but i have not found a concrete proposal on the haskell' list of
> tickets. i hope i can advance the process by making a concrete proposal for
> which i attach Haskell code and a pdf giving the rational can be found at
> ftp://ftp.geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at/frank/numbersPrelude_v1.pdf
>
> if i have not found other contributions, i am sorry and hope to hear about
> them.

I recently mentioned the NumericPrelude project:
  http://cvs.haskell.org/darcs/numericprelude/
  http://cvs.haskell.org/darcs/numericprelude/src/Algebra/Core.lhs
  http://cvs.haskell.org/darcs/numericprelude/docs/html/