[Haskell-cafe] Re: The instability of Haskell libraries

[Henning Thielemann]

Christopher Lane Hinson schrieb:
> 
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> 
>>> I despair that a better Numeric hierarchy will never make it into
>>> Haskell.
>>
>>
>> I thought the main reason for that was that nobody could agree on a
>> "better" hierarchy that was actually usable.  (Nobody wants to chain
>> 10 typeclasses together to get work done.)
> 
> I think that there is a way to do this so that everyone can be happy, if
> hassled.
> 
> But GHC already has what we need to define our own numeric preludes. 
> What we don't have is any numeric prelude at all.

NumericPrelude does not count as numeric prelude? :-(
  http://hackage.haskell.org/package/numeric-prelude/