The numeric c types are (effectively) integral, too.

[Jason Dusek]

2013/3/27 Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de>:
> Writing orphan instances is generally a bad idea. Instead you could put your
> roundTo function into a nice package and import it everywhere. I don't think
> that an Integral instance is the right way to go, since it would imply the
> signature:
>
> div :: CTime -> CTime -> CTime
>
> and the quotient of two time values is not a time.

One way to think of it is, CTime is time and should follow the
rules of the time. Another way is, CTime is a C type and should
follow the rules of C types.  The latter perspective seems more
appropriate for Foreign.C.* (we are likely to seek out some
other module for modelling time).

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