bookkeeper: Anonymous records and overloaded labels

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Dependencies base (>=4.9 && <4.10), bookkeeper, markdown-unlit, type-level-sets [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright (c) Julian K. Arni
Author Julian K. Arni
Maintainer jkarni@gmail.com
Category Data Structures, Records
Home page http://github.com/turingjump/bookkeeper#readme
Bug tracker https://github.com/turingjump/bookkeeper/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/turingjump/bookkeeper
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Readme for bookkeeper-0.2.1.1

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Bookkeeper

Bookkeeper is a new Haskell library that uses the new OverlodaedLabels feature of GHC 8 to provide a new take on datatypes and records:

{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-}
{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedLabels #-}
import Bookkeeper


jane :: Book '[ "name" :=> String, "age" :=> Int ]
jane = emptyBook
     & #name =: "Jane"
     & #age =: 30

-- >>> jane
-- Book {age = 30, name = "Jane"}
-- >>> jane ?: #name
-- "Jane"

It bears some similarities to Nikita Volkov's record library, but requires no Template Haskell.

Accesing a field that does not exist is a type error, made nicer with GHCs new custom type errors:

 -- >>> jane ?: #address
--   • The provided Book does not contain the field "address"
--     Book type:
--     '["age" ':-> Int, "name" ':-> String]

The order in which fields are inserted or appear in types does not matter. That is, in:

-- type A = Book '[ "field1" :=> Int, "field2" :=> Bool]
-- type B = Book '[ "field2" :=> Bool "field1" :=> Int ]

Types A and B are the same.

You can set, modify, or get fields. See the haddocks for more information.

main :: IO ()
main = return ()