Try intToFloat :: Int -> Float intToFloat n = fromInteger (toInteger n) -W-M- @ @ | \_/
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Mike T. Machenry wrote: > Hello, > > I am having a problem. I recently desided I wanted a bunch function to return > float instead of Int. I changed their type and wrote a new function that > returned a float. I figured it'd be okay if all the others still returned > Int since it's trivial to convert Int to Float. Sadly Haskell won't let me do > this. What should I do? I attempted to cast all of the values in the functions > that returned Int to Float, but I found no way to do this. I found fromInteger > but it didn't seem to work on the return value of the cardinality function for > instance. I guess cardinality much return Int. This is one of my functions. > > smallestSet :: GameState -> Float > smallestSet s = (-1 * cardinality (fLocations s)) > > This function is an error because it infer's an Int. > > Thanks, > -mike > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell > _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
