[Haskell-cafe] Why no Floating instance for Data.Fixed / Data.Fixed.Binary

Albert Y. C. Lai trebla at vex.net
Mon Apr 13 21:49:00 UTC 2015


On 2015-04-13 11:31 AM, Douglas McClean wrote:
> I'm wondering why the decision was made not to have a Floating 
> instance for Data.Fixed.

I have always found economics to be a powerful answer to this kind of 
questions. That is, perhaps simply, there has not been sufficient 
incentive for anyone to do the work. For example, do you want to do it?


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