Proposal: add `Proxy`fied versions of `bitSizeMaybe` and `finiteBitSize`

[Andrew Martin]

Alternatively, we could have it be `Proxy# a -> Int`, which should have
identical performance characteristics to `Const Int a` but with the added
benefit that it's a little easier to understand how it's supposed to be
used.

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:37 AM, Zemyla <zemyla at gmail.com> wrote:

> I honestly think we should make it a Const Int a, instead of a
> function, so that it's a number in the typeclass dictionary and not a
> function.
>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:41 PM, M Farkas-Dyck <strake888 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 2017-12-13 08:19 PM, David Feuer wrote:
> >>
> >> +1, but we should also do this for sizeOf and alignment in
> >> Foreign.Storable.
> >
> >
> > Yes, good idea
> >
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