A simple problem

Ashley Yakeley ashley@semantic.org
Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:08:07 -0800


At 2001-01-18 15:38, I wrote:

>3 is not always an Integer. It's of type "(Num a) => a".

Of course, it would be nice if 3 were an Integer, and Integer were a 
subtype of Real. I haven't come across a language that does this, where 
for instance 3.0 can be cast to Integer (because it is one) but 3.1 
cannot be.

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA