Proposal: New Eq and Ord instances for Double and Float

[Daniel Peebles]

Is it? our Ord class already violates the IEEE spec (and can't help it), so
we might as well violate it and be mathematically useful.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Daniel Fischer <
> daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Proposal: Provide Double and Float with Eq and Ord instances that
>> introduce
>> a total order.
>>
>
> I am strongly against this proposal, as it is in an area that is
> particularly poorly understood by most programmers (even experts). While the
> current behaviour may be undesirable from some points of view, at least it
> is consistent with most other programming languages - and this is one of the
> few areas where I think that's important.
>
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