On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 11:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My last word (promise!) on the subject, especially addressed to Jonathan > Cast, who writes: > > > To wit, I'm still failing to understand what your position is. > > I quote the Master: > > Lennart: > > Come on people! This discussion is absurd. The numeric classes in > > Haskell have a lot of choices that are somewhat arbitrary. > > Just live with it. If pi has a default or not has no practical > > consequences. > > My position is: don't put rubbish into the Prelude! > Swelling the standard environment with useless stuff has two consequences, > it pollutes the name space, and slows down the learning process of the > language, since many newbies will try to learn those useless quirks. > So, no default, and no class membership. But, as LA says, we can live with, > we have more important sorrows, all of us...
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