Stephan Friedrichs wrote:
When looking for an xor function, I found one in Data.Bits but couldn't use it for Bool, because Bool is no instance of Bits and of Num (which would be necessary, because it's "class (Num b) => Bits b"). My question is: Why not?
[...] quite trivial... Why is this not part of base? Or am I missing something?
One reason would be that we don't want 1 + True to typecheck, even if it does have a sensible interpretation. Ganesh =============================================================================== Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.credit-suisse.com/legal/en/disclaimer_email_ib.html ===============================================================================