AW: Generic Haskell Diffs?

[Markus.Schnell at infineon.com]

Thank you, Ralf.
Curiosity satisfied. :)

Markus

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Markus Schnell


> There is just one Generic Haskell project
> even though the actual language extension is a moving target of course
> because this is an active project.
> 
> The boilerplate approach is about lightweight generic programming IN 
> Haskell.
> The fact that the boilerplate approach is supported by GHC is 
> very, very
> convenient, but in a sense optional: in principle, you could write 
> Typeable and Data
> instances yourself, and you could still leverage generic 
> programming in
> Haskell. Anyway, some more information can be found on the 
> boilerplate 
> page.
> 
> Using both approaches together would be quite cool!?!
> There is no technical reason why this would be impossible.
> But it is certainly not the case that the two approaches are 
> complementary.
> They overlap quite a bit. The boilerplate approach tries to 
> be easy in the
> traversal arena. In the literature, there are some comments 
> on how these and
> other approaches relate. I would still find it interesting to see a 
> survey that
> works through some examples and compares the two approaches 
> and others.
> 
> Ralf