Proposal: Remove Num superclass of Bits
John Meacham
john at repetae.net
Sun Oct 16 02:41:38 CEST 2011
Or even worse,
if 3 then True else False would result in 'False' since 3 /= true (1)
or 'True' since 3 /= false (0)
neither is obvious.
Adding just zero and one doesn't completely solve the problem, because
testBit uses equality with zero, so an Eq instance is needed.
I would just remove the bit and testBit defalut instances, they seem
like reasonable primitives to be required for an instance.
John
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