> In any case, I propose to change "Integral" to "Ord and Num".
I agree. And nhc98 seems to actually implement this. Nonetheless I find using n+k patterns for floating point numbers pretty horrible. And it raises the question why k cannot be a rational ... But then n+k patterns are a wart anyway. Btw., in 3.17.2 Informal Semantics of Pattern Matching the end of the following sentence should be changed: Matching a non-_|_ value x against a pattern of the form n+k (where n is a variable and k is a positive integer literal) succeeds if x>=k, resulting in the binding of n to x-k, and fails if x<k. There is no guarantee that if x>=k == False then x < k == True. So the sentence should end "..., and fails otherwise". Olaf -- OLAF CHITIL, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK. URL: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/~olaf/ Tel: +44 1904 434756; Fax: +44 1904 432767 _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
