Data.Ratio and exceptions

[Simon Marlow]

On 06/06/2012 06:11, Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> The essential nature of the function wouldn't be altered any, it'd
>> just give a more precise error. Seems like an improvement regardless
>> of how one feels about errors/exceptions/bottoms.
>>
>> Also, I think using DivideByZero is appropriate here. No need to
>> invent a new exception type.
>
> GHC.Real uses the error function in some places. I believe that most
> cases should be throw ArithException. I will survey and make a
> comprehensive proposal.
>
> If there are other modules to be surveyed, please let me know.

I'll go ahead and make this change.  Thanks for the suggestion!

Cheers,
	Simon