Int16 and friends

[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

"Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <mk167280@zodiac.mimuw.edu.pl> wrote,

> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> 
> > Here's a proposal for improving it.  Two questions
> > 
> > 	- is it a good scheme (any improvements?)
> 
> I like it.

Me, too.

> An alternative would be to have plusInt16# etc., but IMHO it would be worse.
> 
> > 	- would any of you like to implement it?  We're
> > 	  busy with GHCi...
> 
> I can try over the weekend. 

Cool :-)

Cheers,
Manuel