question of decimal pointed literals

[S.D.Mechveliani]

Can we solve and close the problem of the meaning of decimal pointed
leterals?
To my 

| People wrote about   toRational (0.9) == 9%10  = False
|                      ...
| Probably, the source of a `bug' is a language agreement that the
| input is in decimal representation (`0.9') and its meaning is a
| floating approximation in _binary_ representation.
| For example,  1%5  yields a finite mantissa in decimal representation
| and an infinite (periodic) mantissa for the binary representation of
| toBinary(1%5) = 1B % 1001B.
                              (a typo: this should be  101B)

| Therefore applying toRational to any finite float approximation
| (Double, or other) of 1%5 does not return 1%5.


Lennart Augustsson <lennart@mail.augustsson.net> writes 

> What are you talking about?  Input in decimal representation is
> stored as a Rational number.  There is absolutely no loss of
> precision.

and in his next letter citates the Report:

> "The floating point literal f is equivalent to 
> fromRational (n Ratio.% d), where fromRational is a
> method in class Fractional and Ratio.% constructs a rational from
> two integers, as defined in the Ratio library. The integers n and 
> d are chosen so that n/d = f."


By saying  "input is in decimal representation (`0.9')"
I meant that a number `0.9' is written by a programmer keeping in 
mind a decimal representation.
Further, according to the citation,  0.9 --> fromRational (9%10),
                                     0.2 --> fromRational (1%5)

are stored as the values of type     Fractional a => a.

(1) What is this `a' for our example of
                             toRational (fromRational (0.9)) == 9%10
?
(2) Why Haskell does not report an ambiguity error? 

For `a' may be Rational, Double, Float - just anything of Fractional.
If we take Lennart's assertion 
  > Input in decimal representation is stored as a Rational number.  
  > There is absolutely no loss of precision.

then it should be  `a' = Rational. 
Then, in particular,               toRational (0.d) == d%10  = True

for any decimal literal  d   and  * any other behavior is a bug. *
Is this really so?

Now,  Hugs-98-Feb-2000,  probably, decides that  `a' = Double.
Because it returns  False  for  0.9.
And in this case these values are _not_ stored as the rational 
numbers, but convert to  Double,  with the precision loss caused, as
I wrote initially, by truncating of the division result, like
1001B % 1010B.  

Who could explain, please, whether I understand correct the whole
question, and answer to the questions (1), (2) ? 
And is `False' is a bug?

Thanks in advance for the comments.

-----------------
Serge Mechveliani
mechvel@botik.ru