Proposal: Add hasBitSize to Data.Bits.Bits

[Edward Kmett]

That would work perfectly.

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On Aug 13, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

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> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Edward Kmett wrote:
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>> Correct. This is not a viable solution for the problem, also it precludes the existance of support for
>> someone else's Natural number type, etc.
>> Every type that is currently an instance of Bits is either of a fixed size or potentially infinite.
>> Changing bitSize to return a Maybe a works. Making a separate BitSize class simply forces me to do exactly
>> what I'm doing right now, which is ignore it and manually probe. 
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> How about two versions of 'bitSize' - one with Maybe return type in the Bits class and one without Maybe in a FixedBitSize subclass?
>