There's some reason for that, too. Bits has operators, which are especially ugly when qualified, and I suspect most people are even more annoyed by using two import statements to manage this than they are about using qualified imports in the first place.

In fact, most of the library has unique enough names that it needn't be imported qualified, and qualifying would make code read worse (to me, and I'm sure others; x `Bits.shiftR` n). So in this case, we'd be adding one function that encourages qualification to a module that otherwise doesn't.

-- Dan