Data.Word should define instances of Random for each type

[kaol]

I'm forwarding Debian bug  http://bugs.debian.org/533022 for your consideration.

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Data.Word defines signed and unsigned integer types for various bit sizes. It would help if Data.Word made each type an instance of Random. Per  http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Orphan_instance , such an instance should appear either in System.Random or Data.Word, and it makes more sense to do the latter.

[ross]

Data.Word is in the base package and System.Random is in the random package, which depends on base, so the instances would have to go in System.Random.

[igloo]

Can someone make a library submission ( http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions) for this please?

[rrnewton]

I agree. This should be part of an overhaul of random coming in the near-to-medium term.

[simonmar]

Ryan - I don't think you meant to turn this into a merge, right?

[rrnewton]

This was fixed in the following commit:

 https://github.com/haskell/random/commit/94f0198568df8372f531dff057719d94233bef94

It's currently fixed in HEAD in the random package repository.

[igloo]

Pulled