[Haskell-cafe] Way to implement toFloat :: (Num a) => a -> Float

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:19 PM, EatsKittens
<temporalabstraction at gmail.com>wrote:

> Is there a way to add a method to a typeclass like num to implement this
> concept? A function that converts any number to floats?
>

What does it mean for (Complex Double)?
What does it mean for (a -> a) (NumInstances)?

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