[Haskell-cafe] bug in number reading?

Jason Dusek jason.dusek at gmail.com
Sun Sep 28 19:41:36 EDT 2008


Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Jason Dusek wrote:
>>
>>  Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't seem right...
>>
>> :; ghc -e '10e4'
>>
>> <interactive>:1:0:
>>   Warning: Defaulting the following constraint(s) to type `Double'
>>            `Fractional a' arising from a use of `it' at
>> <interactive>:1:0-3
>>   In the first argument of `print', namely `it'
>>   In the expression: print it
>>   In a stmt of a 'do' expression: print it
>> 100000.0
>> it :: forall t. (Fractional t) =>
>
> Looks right to me.  Remember that the translation of that is 10 * 10^4.

  Oh, right.

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_jsn


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