>John O'Donnell writes:
> > The Floating types should be called Floating, and the name Real
> > should be reserved for numbers that actually obey the algebraic
> > laws for real numbers.
>
>Here's an issue with the naming scheme proposed above: how many
>non-mathematician users will become confused by subtle semantic and/or
>performance issues when they declare a "Real" when they meant
>"Floating"? I doubt that this naming distinction will raise the
>required "mental question-mark" to the novice Haskell programmer.
The idea with calling the floating numbers floating numbers is that it is
possible to implement real numbers too, as in computer algebra programs.
Hans Aberg
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