Num superclass of Bits (Was: Proposal: Remove Show and Eq superclasses of Num)

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

> Just as a side note: I also dislike that the Data.Bits.Bits type-class
> has Num as its superclass; If I need something to be an instance of the
> Bits class for the bit-ops, I don't usually want to be forced to provide
> multiplication and addition operations as well...

Me too. For instance when working with flag sets like in [1], addition, 
multiplication, absolute value, number literals make no sense.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/enumset