Double -> CDouble, realToFrac doesn't work
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
qrczak at knm.org.pl
Fri Nov 5 04:53:36 EST 2004
ross at soi.city.ac.uk writes:
> [The proposal is to add 0:%0, 1:%0 and -1:%0 to Rational.]
>
> Changing Rational from meaning rational numbers would also be bad. I'd
> prefer to redefine realToFrac to go through a new type that is the union
> of Rational and these values.
It's not enough if you care about preserving -0.0.
Instead of materializing variants, the function could check isInfinite
etc. - except that these functions are in RealFloat class, not available
for arbitrary Real numbers.
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