[Haskell-cafe] instance Enum Double considered not entirely great?

[Ketil Malde]

Chris Smith <cdsmith at gmail.com> writes:

> It would be a shame if we lost an occasionally useful and easy to read

You forgot "confusing"?  Expecting Enum to enumerate all inhabitants of
a type seems very reasonable to me, and seems to hold for all
non-floating point types.  A numeric range [a..a+n] might be expected
to have a+n+1 elements, but that doesn't hold either for Float and
Double.  I think Enum for floating point values is broken - but it is
reality, so we need to deal with it.

> Instead, perhaps the issue should be brought up with the fixed-point
> number library you're using, and they could fix their Enum instance to
> be more helpful.

Or just avoid Enum, and define "range" or something similar instead.

-k
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