FloatingHex: Read and write hexadecimal floating point numbers

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Read and write hexadecimal floating point numbers. Provides a quasiquoter for entering hex-float literals, and a function for printing them in hexadecimal.

See: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf, pages 57-58. We slightly diverge from the standard and do not allow for the "floating-suffix," as the type inference of Haskell makes this unnecessary.

For details, please see: http://github.com/LeventErkok/FloatingHex/


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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5 (info)
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Dependencies base (>=4 && <5), template-haskell (>=2.10 && <2.12) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright Levent Erkok
Author Levent Erkok
Maintainer erkokl@gmail.com
Revised Revision 1 made by HerbertValerioRiedel at 2017-01-15T10:09:07Z
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Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/LeventErkok/FloatingHex.git
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FloatingHex: Read/Write Hexadecimal floats

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Hexadecimal Floats

For syntax reference, see: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf, pages 57-58. We slightly diverge from the standard and do not allow for the "floating-suffix," as the type inference of Haskell makes this unnecessary. Some examples are:

  0x1p+1
  0x1p+8
  0x1.b7p-1
  0x1.fffffffffffffp+1023
  0X1.921FB4D12D84AP-1

This format allows for concise and precise string representation for floating point numbers.

Example

{-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes #-}
import Data.Numbers.FloatingHex

-- expressions
f :: Double
f = [hf|0x1.f44abd5aa7ca4p+25|]

-- patterns
g :: Float -> String
g [hf|0x1p1|]  = "two!"
g [hf|0x1p-1|] = "half!"
g d            = "something else: " ++ show d

-- showing hexadecimal floats
test = showHFloat [hf|0x1.f44abd5aa7ca4p+25|] ""

(Note that while the quasiquoter allows for floating-point patterns, it is usually not a good idea to have floating-point literals used in pattern matching.)