[Haskell-cafe] Why is toRational a method of Real?

[Lennart Augustsson]

You're right.  It's bad to have toRational in Real.  It's also bad to
have Show and Eq as superclasses to Num.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Omari Norman <omari at smileystation.com> wrote:
> Why is toRational a method of Real? I thought that real numbers need not
> be rational, such as the square root of two. Wouldn't it make more sense
> to have some sort of Rational typeclass with this method? Thanks.
> --Omari
>
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