Remove eq and show from num class

[Mario Blazevic]

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 3:19 AM, Anthony Clayden <
anthony_clayden at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> I'm baffled. Is this some sort of 'in' joke at ICFP?
> Then remember the rest of the world can see this list.
>
> > All yays from committee members please reply with yes to
> this email :)
>
> If this is to the committee, shouldn't it be on the
> committee list?
> (I mean ghc-steering-committee.)
>
> Or is there some other committee? I thought the
> Haskell-prime forum and process
>  was dead/replaced by the github proposals process?
>

It's complementary to the GitHub repo. It seemed easier to discuss general
things via e-mail.


At risk of me sounding like a complete dork: I find it
> rather useful
> that I can compare numbers for equality and show them.
> (That is, without having to write my own instances.)
>

All the standard instances of Num do have instances for Eq, Ord, and other
usual classes. If you mean that you're comparing a parametric Num a => a,
you'll be disappointed when you upgrade to GHC 7.4.1:

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.4.1/docs/html/users_guide/release-7-4-1.html
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