Haskell Report (again)

[Dylan Thurston]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:59:05AM -0700, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Dale is absolutely right!  How has this entirely bogus code survived so
> long?

Err, my name is Dylan...

> Here is an (alleged) fix, which works in the tests I've tried.  If
> anyone else can spare a moment to check my code I'd be very
> grateful.

(a) Where's the definition of mk0?  (It was in the text you deleted.)
(b) What is the code supposed to do?  The code you posted always
    prints a decimal point; I imagine this is intended?  Can this be
    documented?
(c) I don't think the case e=0 is right; you miss the initial "0".
(d) "floatToDigits" seems to return an exponent that is off by 1 from
    what I expected at first.  This is reasonable, but since the
    function is exported, it should be documented.

Best,
	Dylan

> ================
> Library Report, Numeric library, Section 4.1, page 13.
>   In the definition of formatRealFloat, 
>   in the definition of doFmt,
>   in the FFFixed branch of "case fmt of ...",
>   in the Nothing branch of "case  decs of ..."
>   replace the entire branch "Nothing -> ..." with
> 
>        Nothing | e >= 0    -> take e (ds ++ repeat '0') ++ "." ++ mk0
> (drop e ds)
> 	         | otherwise -> "0." ++ replicate (-e) '0' ++ ds
> 
> ===========================