That and it prevents the obvious instance for Bool.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:51 PM, John Meacham <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:john@repetae.net">john@repetae.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I also really dislike that superclass of bits, there is no need for it.<br>
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Henning Thielemann<br>
&lt;<a href="mailto:lemming@henning-thielemann.de">lemming@henning-thielemann.de</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:<br>
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&gt;&gt; Just as a side note: I also dislike that the Data.Bits.Bits type-class<br>
&gt;&gt; has Num as its superclass; If I need something to be an instance of the<br>
&gt;&gt; Bits class for the bit-ops, I don&#39;t usually want to be forced to provide<br>
&gt;&gt; multiplication and addition operations as well...<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Me too. For instance when working with flag sets like in [1], addition,<br>
&gt; multiplication, absolute value, number literals make no sense.<br>
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&gt; [1] <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/enumset" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/package/enumset</a><br>
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