Proposal: Remove Num superclass of Bits

[Edward Kmett]

+1 even with the wrinkles involved.

If this passes (which seems likely to me), I'd also like to propose adding
an instance of Bits to Bool, but we can push that forward separately, I
suppose.

-Edward

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> 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.
>
> This would, for example, enable Vectors to get an instance for Bits:
> http://trac.haskell.org/vector/ticket/59
>
> Discussion period: the usual 2 weeks (29 Oct.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Bas
>
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