[Hugs-bugs] Re: fromInt

[ross at soi.city.ac.uk]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Bob Tennent wrote:
> >| If I enter fromInt 5 at the hugs prompt, I get 5. If I use  fromInt 5 in 
> >a module and try to load the | module, I'm told that fromInt is undefined, 
> >unless I explicitly import  Hugs.Prelude.
> 
> Same with toInt, fromDouble.  Evidently a mismatch between the exports of 
> Hugs.Prelude and the imports of Prelude.hs.

These are internal functions of the Hugs implementation of the Prelude,
and not part of standard Haskell.  It's a bug that they're visible when
no module is loaded.  (The names in scope are always those in scope
inside the current module, and in this case that's the Prelude.)