Nick Bowler wrote: > I'd like to propose what I believe is a simple but valuable extension to > Haskell that I haven't seen proposed elsewhere. > > C has something it calls hexadecimal floating constants, and it would be > very nice if Haskell had it too. For floating point systems where the > radix is a power of two (very common), they offer a means of clearly and > exactly specifying any finite floating point value. > > [..] > > Similarly, the greatest finite double value can be written as > 0x1.fffffffffffffp+1023. > > These constants have the form > > 0x[HH][.HHHHH]p[+/-]DDD
If you don't want to wait on an (uncertain) inclusion into the Haskell standard, you can implement a small helper function to that effect yourself; essentially using encodeFloat . Regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
