Re: overloading operators

Ross Paterson <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:26:14 +0100

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On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:04:14PM -0500, Alfredo Paz-Valderrama wrote:
> but whe the Thompson's book says:
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> Literals are not overloaded, there is no automatic conversion from Int to Float.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My copy says (on p45) "Although literals are overloaded," and the point
is explained in the previous paragraph.

Note though that fromInt should be replaced by the Haskell 98 function
fromIntegral.