[Haskell-cafe] Are there arithmetic composition of functions?

[sdiyazg at sjtu.edu.cn]

Wow, there are so many people interested in this:)
After reading the replies and some trail and error, now I think I need to look into Numeric Prelude first. I hadn't known of NP until reading Richard O'Keefe's reply. I will also try purely syntactic expansion with TH, but I haven't used TH seriously anyway.

On a side note, if we consider typeclasses as predicates on types, then (especially with the extensions enabled) the type system looks extremely like a obfuscated logic programming language.With existential types it even starts to look like a first-order thereom prover. 
At present we can easily express different flavors of conjunction, but expressing disjunction is hard. And that's why the Prelude can cause problems here.