[Haskell-cafe] Float instance of Data.Bits

[Sam Martin]

Hi,

Is there a particular reason Float, Double, etc do not have instances of Data.Bits in the standard libraries? I note the Haskell 2010 report doesn't include them either.

In fact, I'm not actually sure how you'd implement the instance for floating point types without having some kind of compiler-specific extension, or a c-binding.

Could anyone fill in my missing knowledge here?

Cheers,
Sam