Proposal: Export Data.Word.Word from Prelude

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 2014-08-24 17:27, Johan Tibell wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Ben Millwood <haskell at benmachine.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> What's left? To those enthusiastically +1-ing this proposal, how will it
>> improve your lives?
> 
> 
> Unsigned fixed-width integers appear everywhere in programming and
> algorithms. Haskell is to my knowledge the only language that doesn't
> expose such a type next to its signed version.
> 

Java is a notable exception here. Usually the omission leads to pain,
but it has to be said that it's mostly just when interfacing with C
and/or in parsing binary formats.

Regards,