[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why purely in haskell?  jerzy.karczmarczuk at
info.unicaen.fr jerzy.karczmarczuk at info.unicaen.fr Fri Jan 11
12:25:09 EST 2008  Wolfgang Jeltsch protests (all this is about
pathologies of the floating point computations in Haskell, of
course...):   > Please don’t suggest that “illegalizing” some
Ord instance is similar to  > killing people out of religious
motives.  Did I? Where?? This is silly...   I admit that I have
over-reacted to Ketil, I didn't notice that he proposed the
"bombing reaction" as an *option*, not as the Only True way of
dealing with NaNs. I am sorry, although then Ketil seems saying
that raising the exception *is* the correct approach, while I
think it is not, being too brutal. OK, probably the best for
people who learn the language. No good for professionals, and
impossible for some library procedures.   But *you* seem to have
decided that all "weakness" in treating exceptional values is
absolutely wrong and sinful.   The analogy with religious issues
is weak, there i