On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Frederick Ross <madhad...@gmail.com> wrote: > For that matter, why not use Integral a => a and trust in GHC to specialize > the type in practice?
I think that every library would need to have many SPECIALIZE pragmas for this to happen. Also, I don't really see what we gain from allowing different Integral types. Int64 is more than enough and probably will be for some time ;), and actually I don't know if there are file systems or operating systems that can handle files larger than 2^64 bytes. We could use Integer should we reach this limit, but this seems premature. Given that Offset in seqloc package is a newtype, changing it in the (far) future from Int64 to Integer should be mostly painless. Cheers =), -- Felipe. _______________________________________________ Biohaskell mailing list Biohaskell@biohaskell.org http://malde.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/biohaskell
