[Haskell-cafe] Re: (flawed?) benchmark : sort

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Mar 11, 2008, at 0:20 , Chaddaï Fouché wrote:

> 2008/3/11, David Menendez <dave at zednenem.com>:
>> I think Adrian is just arguing that a == b should imply f a == f b,
>>  for all definable f, in which case it doesn't *matter* which of two
>>  equal elements you choose, because there's no semantic difference.
>>
> I completely agree that this propriety should be true for all Eq
> instance exported by a public module. I don't care if it is not the
> case in a isolated code, but libraries shouldn't break expected
> invariant (or at least be very cautious and warn the user). Even Eq
> Double respects this propriety as far as I know.

I wouldn't want to bet on that (Eq Double, that is).  Floating  
point's just *evil*.

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