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

[Lennart Augustsson]

And what is a number?  Are complex numbers numbers?

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Miguel Mitrofanov <miguelimo38 at yandex.ru> wrote:
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> Sönke Hahn wrote:
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>> I used to implement
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>>    fromInteger n = (r, r) where r = fromInteger n
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>> , 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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