[bitc-dev] Latest commit and bitfields

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 11:44 -0400, Swaroop Sridhar wrote:
> As of the latest commit, we have moved over to typeclasses for typing 
> integer and floating point literals...
> I am noting this here because users should not be surprised by the 
> change in behavior.

No. You are noting this because users *may* be surprised by the change
in behavior. :-)

> Also, bitfield instances for the integral typeclass have been removed 
> for the moment. Therefore, assignments to a bitfield (or initialization) 
> will not work. I have commented such a use in one of the unit tests. So, 
> please sync the entire tree. Otherwise, if you sync only the source 
> tree, this test will fail.

Swaroop and I have an ongoing discussion about integral types here. The
issue needs to surface on the list for discussion, and it should start
to do so later today.

shap