On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Arthur van Leeuwen wrote: > > A closely related issue: fromIntegral is in Integral which also > > requires quotRem. However, > > the two are semantically quite disjoint. I can *easily* see the > > semantics of fromIntegral > > on EpochTime, but not the semantics of quotRem on EpochTime. > > Having fromIntegral > > would solve the above puzzle... :) > > As I understand it, it's widely recognised that Haskell's current > numeric class hierachy is broken (or at best, not very well chosen), but > nobody came up with a better suggestion yet. > > (By all means, somebody correct me if I'm wrong here...!)
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