altfloat-0.3.1: Alternative floating point support for GHC.

Data.Floating.Types

Description

Definition of the core floating point types and basic manipulation of them.

Synopsis

Documentation

data Double Source

The Double type. This is expected to be an identical declaration to the one found in GHC.Prim. We avoid simply using GHC's type because we need to define our own class instances.

Constructors

D# Double# 

class FloatConvert a b whereSource

Coercion to floating point types.

Methods

toFloating :: a -> bSource

Convert to a floating point type. Conversions from integers and real types are provided, as well as conversions between floating point types. Conversions between floating point types preserve infinities, negative zeros and NaNs.