[Haskell-cafe] Re: pi

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:32:55PM +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, David Roundy wrote:
> > I think it's quite sensible, for instance, that passing a negative 
> >number as the first argument of (**) with the second argument 
> >non-integer leads to a NaN.
> 
> It would better to disallow negative bases completely for (**), because 
> integers should be explicitly typed as integers and then (^^) can be used. 
> I have already seen (x**2) and (e ** x) with (e = exp 1) in a Haskell 
> library. Even better would be support for statically checked non-negative 
> numbers.

I agree.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University