question about GHC API on GHC plugin

[Andrew Farmer]

I'm not positive, but I believe each dictionary has a field for its
superclass dictionary. So if you have a dictionary for `Floating
Float`, one of the fields will be the `Num Float` dictionary.

How to get the projector function for the field... I'm not sure. But
perhaps you can find it by type?

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Mike Izbicki <mike at izbicki.me> wrote:
> Thanks!  Now one more question :)
>
> The code Andrew Farmer showed me for getting dictionaries works great
> when I have a concrete type (e.g. Float) I want a dictionary for.  But
> now I'm working on polymorphic code and running into a problem.
>
> Lets say I'm running the plugin on a function with signature `Floating
> a => a -> a`, then the plugin has access to the `Floating` dictionary
> for the type.  But if I want to add two numbers together, I need the
> `Num` dictionary.  I know I should have access to `Num` since it's a
> superclass of `Floating`.  How can I get access to these superclass
> dictionaries?
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have a new question: I'm working on supporting literals now.  I'm having
>>> trouble creating something that looks like `(App (Var F#) (Lit 1.0))` because
>>> I don't know how to create a variable that corresponds to the `F#`
>>> constructor.  The mkWiredInName function looks promising, but overly
>>> complicated.  Is this the correct function?  If so, what do I pass in for the
>>> Module, Unique, TyThing, and BuiltInSyntax parameters?
>>
>>     mkConApp intDataCon [mkIntLit dynFlags PUT_YOUR_INTEGER HERE]
>>     mkConApp floatDataCon [mkFloatLit dynFlags PUT_YOUR_FLOAT_HERE]
>>
>> Similarly for other literals...
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