[Hugs-users] overloading operators

[Ross Paterson]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:04:14PM -0500, Alfredo Paz-Valderrama wrote:
> but whe the Thompson's book says:
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> Literals are not overloaded, there is no automatic conversion from Int to Float.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My copy says (on p45) "Although literals are overloaded," and the point
is explained in the previous paragraph.

Note though that fromInt should be replaced by the Haskell 98 function
fromIntegral.