Re: [Mid-discussion Summary] Proposal: add new Data.Bits.Bits(bitZero) method

Am 24.02.2014 21:24, schrieb Dan Doel:

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Casey McCann mailto:cam@uptoisomorphism.net> wrote:

Because it is a thoroughly irrelevant option, empirically speaking, on account of approximately nobody actually using Data.Bits that way.

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.

For Data.Map we are used to write two import statements. It's not that uncommon. But I agree that qualification and infix operators don't work well together. That said, I am also not happy with 'rotate' and 'shift' being designed for infix use, since this way I cannot use (.) and ($) for composition of bit manipulations.