unsafeShift operations for Data.Bits

[Samuel Bronson]

On 11/6/06, roconnor at theorem.ca <roconnor at theorem.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Samuel Bronson wrote:
>
> > And use them for the default implementation of rotate, while we are at it.
>
> I thought you had a patch to GHC that worked really well?  I think it is
> much beter idea to fix the inliner rather than exposing unsafe
> functionality.

It isn't really *unsafe*, exactly. But it might not be purely
functional. However, it isn't imperative or anything like that. Also,
for rotate, I needed to change the implementations in the *libraries*
(it was only the GHC-specific implementations, though). (Also, nobody
seems to have applied that patch yet for some reason.) And I needed to
change them to use the raw, unchecked primops.

Oh, that reminds me. Why call them "unsafe"? Why not "unchecked" as
GHC's primops are called?