Proposal: Remove Num superclass of Bits

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Sat Oct 15 12:11:09 CEST 2011


On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:56:27AM +0200, Bas van Dijk wrote:
> On 15 October 2011 00:01, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
> > Removing the Num superclass of Bits was also mentioned, but that would
> > need its own proposal.
> 
> Ok, I would like to propose removing the Num superclass of Bits.

Would we just remove default methods like
    bit i = 1 `shiftL` i
    x `testBit` i = (x .&. bit i) /= 0
?


Thanks
Ian




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