Thanks for your replies.
In particular to Jon for the reference to the Haskell 98 standard and the
comment about language design.
If anyone has further references to Haskell 98 or Erlang, I'm still
interested.
Regarding cost, I do see the difference in factors (Integer - Int, and
computable real
The cost factor of Integer vs Int is far, far smaller than the factor
between computable reals vs Double.
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Jens Blanck wrote:
> Yes, the cost for computable reals will be an order of magnitude or possibly
> two for well-behaved computations. For not well-behaved pro
Jens Blanck schrieb:
I was wondering if someone could give me some references to when and
why the choice was made to default integral numerical literals to
Integer rather than to Int in Haskell. Also, if you are aware of
similar discussions in other languages.
I think type defaulting is only an
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Jens Blanck wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could give me some references to when and why the
> choice was made to default integral numerical literals to Integer rather
> than to Int in Haskell. Also, if you are aware of similar discussions in
> other languages.
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Jens Blanck wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could give me some references to when and why the
> choice was made to default integral numerical literals to Integer rather
> than to Int in Haskell. Also, if you are aware of similar discussions in
> other languages
On 1 April 2010 10:53, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> Jens Blanck writes:
> > I was wondering if someone could give me some references to when and why
> the
> > choice was made to default integral numerical literals to Integer rather
> > than to Int in Haskell.
>
> My guess is precision: some num
Jens Blanck writes:
> I was wondering if someone could give me some references to when and why the
> choice was made to default integral numerical literals to Integer rather
> than to Int in Haskell.
My guess is precision: some numeric calculations (even doing a round on
some Double values) will
I was wondering if someone could give me some references to when and why the
choice was made to default integral numerical literals to Integer rather
than to Int in Haskell. Also, if you are aware of similar discussions in
other languages.
I'd like to use this information to make an analogous case
