generic-data: Utilities for GHC.Generics

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This package provides common functions on generic types. See README.


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Dependencies base (>=4.9 && <4.12), contravariant, show-combinators [details]
License MIT
Copyright 2018 Li-yao Xia
Author Li-yao Xia
Maintainer lysxia@gmail.com
Revised Revision 1 made by HerbertValerioRiedel at 2018-10-10T20:33:44Z
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Home page https://github.com/Lysxia/generic-data#readme
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/Lysxia/generic-data
Uploaded by lyxia at 2018-03-28T04:02:42Z
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Generic data types in Haskell Build Status

Utilities for GHC.Generics.

Generic deriving for standard classes

Supported classes that GHC currently can't derive: Semigroup, Monoid, Applicative, Alternative, Eq1, Ord1, Show1.

Other classes from base are also supported, even though GHC can already derive them:

  • Eq, Ord, Enum, Bounded, Show (standard);
  • Functor, Foldable, Traversable (via extensions, DeriveFunctor, etc.).

To derive type classes defined elsewhere, it might be worth taking a look at one-liner.

Type metadata

Extract type names, constructor names, number and arities of constructors, etc..


generic-data aims to subsume the following packages, which may still be useful for old versions of GHC and base not supported by generic-data.

  • semigroups: generic Semigroup, Monoid.
  • transformers-compat: generic Eq1, Ord1, Show1, Read1.
  • generic-deriving: doesn't derive the classes in base (defines clones of these classes as a toy example); has Template Haskell code to derive Generic.

Here are other relevant links.

  • deriving-compat: deriving with Template Haskell.
  • one-liner: another approach to using GHC.Generics to derive instances of many type classes, including but not restricted to the above classes (this is done in one-liner-instances).
  • singletons: generic-data borrows code from this package to implement defunctionalization.

All contributions are welcome. Open an issue or a pull request on Github!