14 Jul
2014
14 Jul
'14
3:18 a.m.
Hello John, On 2014-07-13 at 21:29:44 +0200, John Meacham wrote: [...]
Another advantage of logical and arithmetic shifts is that there would be easier to get rid of the pesky 'Num' superclass as you wouldn't need Word/Int trickery and depending on dubious fromIntegaral behavior to get the one you want.
Btw, are you aware http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.0/docs/Data-Bits.html doesn't have Num as its superclass anymore? Or are you referring to some other issue? Cheers, hvr