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

[Lennart Augustsson]

Yes, for instance to be able to use functions as number.
Or to be able to use constructive real numbers as numbers, since
equality is not computable.

  -- Lennart

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
<ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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