[Haskell-beginners] Bool newtype

[Theodore Lief Gannon]

As-is, no. As Michael said, that would defeat the purpose of a newtype.
However, there is a generic way: all newtypes are given instances of
Coercible, so instead of individual unwrap functions you can use coerce
from Data.Coerce.

On Aug 7, 2016 7:59 AM, "Imants Cekusins" <imantc at gmail.com> wrote:

> > newtype B = B { toBool :: Bool }
>
> yep, this works well. toBool b1 is easy enough ;)
>
> I wondered if there was an easy (with deriving etc) way to test B as it
> is. If there isn't - no biggie.
>
>
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