Thu, 03 May 2001 22:34:50 +0200, Sven Panne <Sven.Panne@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> pisze:
Hmmm, I thought that the Word type itself is a GHC extension, the hslibs docs for module Word only talk about the explictly sized variants. OTOH the implementation exports Word, but for legacy reasons, IIRC.
Rather the opposite: I let it export Word not so long ago, together with adding some instances. But unboxed arrays of Words were present long before that: ByteArray (deprecated), MArray, IArray. I don't agree that having a type of a fixed but unspecified size is evil. You can query the sise - you don't have to assume any particular size - and you have explicitly sized types as well. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk * qrczak@knm.org.pl http://qrczak.ids.net.pl/ \__/ ^^ SYGNATURA ZASTÊPCZA QRCZAK