16 Sep
2011
16 Sep
'11
8:12 a.m.
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
Just as a side note: I also dislike that the Data.Bits.Bits type-class has Num as its superclass; If I need something to be an instance of the Bits class for the bit-ops, I don't usually want to be forced to provide multiplication and addition operations as well...
Me too. For instance when working with flag sets like in [1], addition, multiplication, absolute value, number literals make no sense. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/enumset