On Jul 4, 2009, at 15:01 , Max Rabkin wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Andrew
> Coppin<
andrewcoppin@...> wrote:
>> 3. It doesn't appear to provide arithmetic over colours.
>
> It provides darken, blend and addition (though addition is called
> mappend rather than (+)). signum, abs and fromInteger don't make a
> huge amount of sense for colours.
I don't see a good meaning for signum offhand, but fromInteger could
take an X11-encoded RGB value and abs could produce grayscale
brightness.
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