Simon says:
> [...]
> Bottom line: Haskell 2 is pretty wide open. If some group of you
> out there get excited about this and design and implement a coherent
> set of numeric libraries then I think you'd be welcomed with open
> arms, even if it wasn't compatible with Haskell's current numeric
> class structure. Sergey's work is moving in that direction, which
> is great.
Perhaps we could have a chat about this sometime this summer. As you
know I have had a few ideas about this for sometime.
> Above all don't leave it to us compiler hackers! We aren't numeric
> experts like some of you are, and are most unlikely to do a good job
> of revising Haskell's numeric libraries.
All I ask of compiler hackers is that they do not treat (a+b)+c as
a+(b+c)!
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David Lester.
