[Haskell-cafe] Pure Haskell implementation of Float type?

Lennart Augustsson lennart at augustsson.net
Tue Jan 20 19:43:50 EST 2009


Do you have Integer?

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Tim Chevalier <catamorphism at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/20/09, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
>> catamorphism:
>>
>> > Hello,
>>  > Is there a pure Haskell implementation of Floats, i.e., one that
>>  > (unlike GHC.Float) doesn't use foreign calls for things like
>>  > isFloatNegativeZero? I don't care about performance; I'm just looking
>>  > for something that doesn't use foreign calls.
>>  >
>>
>>
>> Huh, what's the use case?
>>
>
> I'm implementing a compiler that doesn't support foreign calls (yet).
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
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