[Haskell-cafe] the complex package is hidden

Tom Ellis tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk
Sun Sep 28 21:11:45 UTC 2014


On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 02:08:30PM -0700, briand at aracnet.com wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:59:40 +0100
> Tom Ellis <tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:
> > Complex is mentioned there because it is still around for compatibility with
> > Haskell 98, but it's not enabled by default.  You'll also see Data.Complex
> > in that list.  Arguably there should be a warning on the page of the former
> > to use the latter instead.
> 
> aha. i see that now.
> 
> ok. at least now i know how to fix this.
> 
> this is fairly old code, and i'm getting a lot of these sorts of things.
> 
> slowly but surely working through them :-)

Depending on exactly what you are doing, you may just want to enable Haskell
98 compatibility instead.

Tom


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