On 2014-02-22 at 11:03:12 +0100, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
Here's the result of the proposal
Introduce a new class method
class Bits a where ... -- | Value with all bits cleared <0-value-method> :: a ...
modulo naming of '<0-value-method>'
Unless I missed any votes, the current tally stands at for `Bits.zero` - ARJANEN Loïc Jean David - Henning Thielemann - Herbert Valerio Riedel (+0.99) for 'Data.Bits.zeroBits' - Edward Kmett - Eric Mertens - Herbert Valerio Riedel - Twan van Laarhoven - (maybe?) ARJANEN Loïc Jean David - Anthony Cowley (+0.5) This tilts the majority towards the name 'zeroBits' As the proposal-deadline was close to the RC2 release, this made it into GHC 7.8.1-RC2, and therefore GHC 7.8.1/base-4.7.0.0 will come with `Data.Bits.zeroBits`[1] Fwiw, there were some alternative names suggested, but those didn't gain significant support: cleared, noBits, clearedBits, whereDidTheBitsGo, notOneBit, allZeroes Beyond this proposal, it was hinted at that we might also want a name for 'complement zeroBits' (although that maybe a FiniteBits-instance), names suggested for that were allBits, allOnes, oneBits, iHaveAllTheBits, everyLastBit Cheers, hvr [1]: http://git.haskell.org/packages/base.git/commitdiff/147bca65bfac216bddff3ccd...