Bit shifting limitations

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

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