From: Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:31:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add more description of what "round" does, from the H98 report
X-Git-Tag: 2009-06-25~96
X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bf74c3a3a192f8fde350d929a44e28a9d7b72890;p=ghc-base.git

Add more description of what "round" does, from the H98 report
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diff --git a/GHC/Real.lhs b/GHC/Real.lhs
index da6053e..aa00ccb 100644
--- a/GHC/Real.lhs
+++ b/GHC/Real.lhs
@@ -173,7 +173,8 @@ class  (Real a, Fractional a) => RealFrac a  where
     properFraction      :: (Integral b) => a -> (b,a)
     -- | @'truncate' x@ returns the integer nearest @x@ between zero and @x@
     truncate            :: (Integral b) => a -> b
-    -- | @'round' x@ returns the nearest integer to @x@
+    -- | @'round' x@ returns the nearest integer to @x@;
+    --   the even integer if @x@ is equidistant between two integers
     round               :: (Integral b) => a -> b
     -- | @'ceiling' x@ returns the least integer not less than @x@
     ceiling             :: (Integral b) => a -> b