[Haskell-cafe] Num instances for 2-dimensional types

[John A. De Goes]

That's not gonna happen until when/if Haskell supports name/operator  
overloading. There's a scarcity of good symbols/function names and  
everyone wants to use them. So naturally, type class abuse follows.

Regards,

John A. De Goes
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On Oct 5, 2009, at 7:12 AM, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:

>
>
> Sönke Hahn wrote:
>
>> I used to implement
>>    fromInteger n = (r, r) where r = fromInteger n
>> , but thinking about it,     fromInteger n = (fromInteger n, 0)
>> seems very reasonable, too.
>
> Stop pretending something is a number when it's not.
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