RE: Documentation bug? {Numeric,GHC.Float}.floatToDigits: requires anon-negative argument

Good point.  I've fixed GHC's online documentation as you suggest.  For
the H98 report I'll put it in the bug list.

Simon

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| Subject: Documentation bug? {Numeric,GHC.Float}.floatToDigits:
requires anon-negative argument
| 
| 
| The library report doesn't seem to mention this, but giving
floatToDigits a
| negative number leads to nonsensical answers:
| 
| Prelude> Numeric.floatToDigits 10 (-3.1415)
| ([-32,5,8,5],0)
| 
| Now, this probably makes perfect sense, but shouldn't the doco mention
the
| fact that floatToDigits requires a non-negative number?  It does for
other
| functions that require non-negative arguments.
| 
| A
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