Tagged values

A Tagged s b value is a value b with an attached phantom type s. This can be used in place of the more traditional but less safe idiom of passing in an undefined value with the type, because unlike an (s -> b), a Tagged s b can't try to use the argument s as a real value.

Moreover, you don't have to rely on the compiler to inline away the extra argument, because the newtype is "free"

Some times you need to change the tag you have lying around. Idiomatic usage is to make a new combinator for the relationship between the tags that you want to enforce, and define that combinator using retag.

 data Succ n
 retagSucc :: Tagged n a -> Tagged (Succ n) a
 retagSucc = retag

Alias for unTagged

Tag a value with its own type.

untagSelf is a type-restricted version of untag.

asTaggedTypeOf is a type-restricted version of const. It is usually used as an infix operator, and its typing forces its first argument (which is usually overloaded) to have the same type as the tag of the second.