RE: Haskell 98 draft report

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

> p. 83 'Coercions and Component Extraction'
> I find it quite odd that round 3.5 returns 4, but round 2.5 returns 2.
> I always thought that round x.5 returns x+1 (instead of the 
> even integer).
> That's the behaviour in most math books and programming languages

It looks odd to me too.   I think this is just taken from some other
standard, so I don't propose to alter it.


Can anyone shed light?

Simon