On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 09:15:26PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Am Samstag, den 13.06.2009, 12:39 -0700 schrieb Josh Triplett: > > Package: ghc6 > > Version: 6.10.3-2 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: upstream > > > > Data.Word defines signed and unsigned integer types for various bit > > sizes. It would help if Data.Word made each type an instance of Random. > > Per <http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Orphan_instance>, such an > > instance should appear either in System.Random or Data.Word, and it > > makes more sense to do the latter. > > upstream says in http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3352 that if > you want to have this feature, you should go through the process > outlined in http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions. Are > you interested in doing that?
Actually, it appears that this bug already got fixed in the upstream repository for System.Random: Fri Oct 8 06:52:39 PDT 2010 Bas van Dijk <[email protected]> * Added Random instances for Int*, Word* and almost all types from Foreign.C.Types However, this fix (and many other changes) has not yet appeared in a version of random on Hackage or in the standard library. So, it appears that random just needs a new upstream release. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
