Proposal: Remove Num superclass of Bits

[Bas van Dijk]

On 15 October 2011 11:56, 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
>

The deadline for this proposal has passed.

I summarized the discussion and provided a patch for base and ghc in:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5593

Regards,

Bas