Re: Proposal: Add Random instances for more base types

24 Oct 2010

      On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Bas van Dijk  wrote:
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On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
 wrote:
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A lot of those can be removed if Random has instances for Word* by
default.  Is there any reason they aren't already instances?
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Ian Lynagh  wrote:
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I see several instances for base types - the random package ought to
provide these.
Proposal:
Add Random instances for:
* all the types in Data.Int:
(Int is already provided)
Int8,
Int16,
Int32,
Int64
* all the types in Data.Word:
Word,
Word8,
Word16,
Word32,
Word64
* almost all the types in Foreign.C.Types:
CChar,
CSChar,
CUChar,
CShort,
CUShort,
CInt,
CUInt,
CLong,
CULong,
CPtrdiff,
CSize,
CWchar,
CSigAtomic,
CLLong,
CULLong,
CIntPtr,
CUIntPtr,
CIntMax,
CUIntMax,
CFloat,
CDouble
Does it make sense to have Random instances for CClock and CTime?
The patch is attached to the ticket:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4379
Deadline:  2 weeks (Friday 22 October 2010)
Regards,
Bas
The deadline for this proposal has passed. There were no objections.

I will move the ticket status to 'patch'.

Thanks,

Bas