1 {-# OPTIONS -fno-implicit-prelude #-}
2 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
5 -- Copyright : (c) The University of Glasgow 2001
6 -- License : BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE)
8 -- Maintainer : libraries@haskell.org
9 -- Stability : experimental
10 -- Portability : portable
12 -- Unsigned integer types.
14 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
18 -- * Unsigned integral types
21 Word8, Word16, Word32, Word64,
28 #ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__
38 * All arithmetic is performed modulo 2^n, where n is the number of
39 bits in the type. One non-obvious consequence of this is that 'negate'
40 should /not/ raise an error on negative arguments.
42 * For coercing between any two integer types, use
43 'fromIntegral', which is specialized for all the
44 common cases so should be fast enough. Coercing word types to and
45 from integer types preserves representation, not sign.
47 * It would be very natural to add a type 'Natural' providing an unbounded
48 size unsigned integer, just as 'Integer' provides unbounded
49 size signed integers. We do not do that yet since there is no demand
52 * The rules that hold for 'Enum' instances over a bounded type
53 such as 'Int' (see the section of the Haskell report dealing
54 with arithmetic sequences) also hold for the 'Enum' instances
55 over the various 'Word' types defined here.
57 * Right and left shifts by amounts greater than or equal to the width
58 of the type result in a zero result. This is contrary to the
59 behaviour in C, which is undefined; a common interpretation is to
60 truncate the shift count to the width of the type, for example @1 \<\<
61 32 == 1@ in some C implementations.