Re: Bounded and floating types

Conal Elliott wrote:
> Currently Float & Double do not have standard Bounded instances.  Is there
> any reason not to use the following?
> 
> instance Bounded Float  where { minBound = -1/0; maxBound = 1/0 }
> instance Bounded Double where { minBound = -1/0; maxBound = 1/0 }

by the way, that minBound definition is (negate(1/0)), not ((negate 1) / 
0) ... although that probably doesn't make a difference

Isaac