proposal/RFC: add bSwap to base in Data.Bits

[Henning Thielemann]

On Thu, 16 May 2013, Vincent Hanquez wrote:

> I'm trying to expose some byte swapping (bSwap) capabilities in base, namely
> operation to allow to swap endianness on word{16,32,64}, i.e.:
>
>  bswap16 :: Word16 -> Word16
>  bswap16 a = (a `shiftR` 8) .|. (a `shiftL` 8)
>  ...

If at all, I'd suggest a name without the 'b', since the other functions 
like 'shift' do not contain a 'b' as well. You can use qualification if 
you want to say that the swap is meant with respect to 'bits'.