What to do about divMod'.

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2008 Nov 14, at 22:58, Christopher Lane Hinson wrote:
> Data.Fixed contains divMod' :: (Real a, Integral b) => a -> a -> (b,  
> a)
> as well as div' and mod'.
>
> There are two problems:
>
> 1) Implementation of this type signature requires conversion to  
> Rational, which is extremely slow.  It really isn't usable in any  
> kind of significant loop at all.

I dunno, Data.Fixed seems to me to be Rational's cousin, and I can  
also see how divMod' would be needed to implement Fixed.

> 2) This has nothing specific to do with fixed precision arithmetic  
> despite being in the Data.Fixed module.


Last I checked the Haddock noted that it has wider use than Data.Fixed.

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