[Haskell-cafe] Arbitrary precision?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Sun May 6 13:29:01 EDT 2007


On May 6, 2007, at 12:59 , Andrew Coppin wrote:
> OOC, is there a reason why you can't just write "5%10"?

Prelude> :t 5%10

<interactive>:1:1: Not in scope: `%'
Prelude> :m +Data.Ratio
Prelude Data.Ratio> :t 5%10
5%10 :: (Integral t) => Ratio t
Prelude Data.Ratio>

I'm actually a bit surprised that's not in Prelude.

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