[Haskell-cafe] Re: Implementing fixed-sized vectors (using datatype algebra?)

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Aaron Denney wrote:

> On 2008-02-01, Bjorn Buckwalter <bjorn.buckwalter at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If Naturals had been sufficient for me I wouldn't have done my own
> > implementation (I'm unaware of any other implementation of Integers).
> > And there is certainly a lot of value to the clearer error messages
> > from a decimal representation.
>
> I did a balanced-base-three (digits are 0, and +- 1) representation to
> get negative "decimals".

Nice. In German the digit values are sometimes called "eins, keins, meins". :-)