At 15:47 +0100 98/10/07, Simon Marlow wrote:
>On the subject of Int vs. Integer, have folk actually looked at the
>GHC/Hugs libraries for fixed-size integers and words, namely Int and
>Word respectively?
...
>If Int were to disappear, most people could just 'import Int' and
>replace Int with Int32 everywhere in their programs. The libraries
>provide types Int{8,16,32,64} and Word{8,16,32,64}, instances of all
>the integer numeric classes and a full range of bit operations. (The
>library interface is due to Alastair Reid).
I looked brifely at this a long time ago, which was part of the reason I
suggested that all those should be replaced by a single type Binary, if
possible.
Hans Aberg
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