Re: New primitive types?

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 2:28 AM Sylvain Henry 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.