Re: Proposal: add new Data.Bits.Bits(bitZero) method

Am 16.02.2014 19:16, schrieb ARJANEN Loïc Jean David:

I'm in favour of that modified proposal, so +1 for a "zero" member of Bits.

And if we fear problems with collisions, we could always name the member something like zeroValue or zeroBits.

If people adhere to the package versioning policy, then there cannot be collisions. That is, import Data.Bits requires strict version bounds (>=x.y.z.w && <x.y.z+1) and both of import Data.Bits (zero) import qualified Data.Bits as Bits allow lax version bounds (>=x.y.z && <x.y+1). Btw. "rotate" may already cause collisions with geometry libraries.