Proposal: add `Proxy`fied versions of `bitSizeMaybe` and `finiteBitSize`
Henning Thielemann
lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Thu Dec 14 08:43:57 UTC 2017
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, M Farkas-Dyck wrote:
> I propose to add the following methods to `Bits` and `FiniteBits` classes:
>
> class Bits a where
> ...
>
> bitSizeMaybe' :: Proxy a -> Maybe Int
>
> class FiniteBits b where
> ...
>
> finiteBitSize' :: Proxy b -> Int
Alternative suggestion for names (I frequently overlook the primes):
bitSizeMaybeConst :: Const (Maybe Int) a
finiteBitSizeConst :: Const Int a
sizeOfConst :: Const Int a
alignmentConst :: Const Int a
Then we must add mutual default implementations in order to preserve
existing instances.
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