Manuel Chakravarty writes:
> Scary, but true...the floats in my version of ghc don't like
> to be referenced. The program
>
> data MassPnt = MassPnt Float (Float, Float)
> deriving (Show)
>
> main = do
> print 1.18088e+11 -- (1)
> let
> x = 1.18088e+11
> p = MassPnt x (-0.768153, -0.742202) -- (*)
> print x -- (2)
>
> prints `1.18088e+11' successfully at line (1), but fails in
> line (2) with `Fail: Char.intToDigit: not a digit'.
The problem persists in GHC-2.10 and GHC-3.00 (which, by the way, was
a dream to install except for the Cubic Spline problem noted before).
Jon
