Thu, 03 May 2001 22:34:50 +0200, Sven Panne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
pisze:
> Hmmm, I thought that the Word type itself is a GHC extension, the
> hslibs docs for module Word only talk about the explictly sized
> variants. OTOH the implementation exports Word, but for legacy
> reasons, IIRC.
Rather the opposite: I let it export Word not so long ago, together
with adding some instances. But unboxed arrays of Words were present
long before that: ByteArray (deprecated), MArray, IArray.
I don't agree that having a type of a fixed but unspecified size is evil.
You can query the sise - you don't have to assume any particular size -
and you have explicitly sized types as well.
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