On 2013-09-18 at 13:56:22 +0200, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: [...]
As it stands, the current implementation state is at
http://git.haskell.org/packages/base.git/commitdiff/cddc9024e67a6d4c01bb1908...
Now I have two questions:
1.) Currently, bitSizeMaybe and bitSize have no default implementation defined. Shall we define mutually recursive default implementations for these two functions to help smooth the transition?
e.g. in the style (just an example, not an actual proposal) of:
bitSize = fromJust . bitSizeMaybe
bitSizeMaybe = Just . bitSize
2.) As it's probably not to late to easily fix any bikeshedding/naming issues: Shall the naming remain as implemented?
PS: 3.) What's the benefit of having the super-class constraint on class Bits b => FiniteBits b where finiteBitSize :: b -> Int ?