BigFloat doesn't have a Read instance

[snap9]

Is someone able to give BigFloat a Read instance?

[snap9]

@jwiegley Hey, are you still actively maintaining this? Last update was in 2014. I'm wondering if any developers are working on this library anymore.

[snap9]

@cartazio Hey, are you taking over the project? I saw your comments from January here: #10

[jwiegley]

I have not been maintaining it lately, and @cartazio I don't think has had the time. We are open to finding a new maintainer.

[cartazio]

@jwiegley im actually interested in helping with this (though i am pretty hosed)

@snap9 question: what semantics / meaning do you expect read to have in this case? in essence (in general) it'll wind up being equivalent to fmap fromRational . readMaybe or a read through the same style code as for the number rep in Scientific, but with truncation at the end see the docs for scientific here

[snap9]

@cartazio Wow, it looks like fmap fromRational . readMaybe would work. Yet if the Scientific solution with truncation is substantially faster, we should probably go with that. I haven't benchmarked it.

[snap9]

@cartazio also, could the method the standard library uses for Float and Double also work for BigFloat? I can't tell as I don't understand those Float and Double implementations of Read (they're quite involved).