PROPOSAL: Add 'Natural' type to base:Data.Word

[Carter Schonwald]

+1


On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Henning Thielemann <
lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
>
>  ,----
>> | 23.1 Unsigned integral types
>> |
>> | This module provides unsigned integer types of unspecified width (Word)
>> | and fixed widths (Word8, Word16, Word32 and Word64). All arithmetic is
>> | performed modulo 2^n, where n is the number of bits in the type.
>> |
>> | ...
>> `----
>>
>
> "Number of bits in the type" suggests, that the number of bits depends
> only on the type, which is not true for Natural (and Integer), right?
>
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