Enum on Float/Double

[Jacques Carette]

The C function you are looking for is called 'nextafter', and is present on
all systems/libraries that pretend to be fully IEEE-754 compliant (as this
is a required function from the standard).  It even takes a direction
parameter (so you can do both nextafter and firstbefore).  Since its API is
simple, an FFI should be rather straightforward.

Jacques

-----Original Message-----
From: haskell-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:haskell-bounces at haskell.org] On
Behalf Of Hal Daume III
Sent: October 21, 2003 2:37 PM
To: Ketil Z Malde
Cc: haskell at haskell.org; Simon Peyton-Jones; George Russell
Subject: Re: Enum on Float/Double


> > My preference would be for succ (+-0) to return the smallest 
> > positive real, since then you could define succ x to be the unique y 
> > with x < y and forall z . z < y => not (x < z), where such a y 
> > exists, and I'm not sure if the Haskell standard knows about signed 
> > zeros.
> 
> Is this really useful?  Why would you need this number?  Peano 
> artithmetic on reals? :-)

Is there any way to do this (yet)?  I found a case where I really need:
  f :: Float -> Float
where
  f x is the least y such that x < y

even if i have to FFI to C, I'd really like a solution.

any help would be appreciated.

 - Hal


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