Proposal: add new Data.Bits.Bits(bitZero) method

[Twan van Laarhoven]

+1 to `zeroBits`. The name fits in with `setBit` etc.
I'm also okay with the name `zero`.

Twan

On 16/02/14 17:45, Edward Kmett wrote:
> `bitZero` sounds like it should equal `bit 0`, which it doesn't.
>
> zeroBits ?
>
> -Edward
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org
> <mailto:hvr at gnu.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On 2014-02-16 at 15:10:42 +0100, ARJANEN Loïc Jean David wrote:
>      > I'll have to come down against that proposal because, at least on amd64
>     for 64
>      > bits-sized types (Int, Int64, Word & Word64), it doesn't works.
>
>     You're right, I don't know how I could have missed that :-/
>
>     Since the presumed pre-condition for the proposal (that 'bit (-1) == 0'
>     would already hold) I hereby amend the proposal to
>
>      > Introduce a new class method
>      >
>      >   class Bits a where
>      >       ...
>      >       -- | Value with all bits cleared
>      >       bitZero :: a
>      >       ...
>      >
>      > modulo naming of 'bitZero'
>
>     (I'm hesitant to consume "zero" from the namespace as was suggested by Henning)
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