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

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 5 August 2010 10:15, Lennart Augustsson <lennart at augustsson.net> wrote:
> You're right.  It's bad to have toRational in Real.  It's also bad to
> have Show and Eq as superclasses to Num.

I understand why it's bad to have Show as a superclass, but why Eq?
Because it stops you from using functions as numbers, etc. ?


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