> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 2:28 AM Sylvain Henry <sylvain@haskus.fr> wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I also think we should do this but it has a lot of ramifications: contant folding in Core, codegen, TH, etc.

>

> Also it will break codes that use primitive types directly, so maybe it's worth a ghc proposal.

Ok, a short proposal sounds reasonable.

I don't think this would break a lot of code - based on a few searches

it seems that people don't really extract `Int#` from

`Int8/Int16/Int32` (similarly with words).

Or am I missing something?

Thanks,

Michal

PS. Sorry for slow reply - I was traveling.

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