Rewrapping with simple bidirectional pattern synonyms
David Feuer
david.feuer at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 22:11:16 UTC 2016
I'm trying to write a bidirectional pattern synonym which is morally
simple, but as far as I can tell there's no way to write it as a
simple bidirectional pattern synonym.
What I want to say is
pattern TSnoc (TSnocList xs) x = TSnocList (CL.TCons (Dual x) xs)
(where TSnocList and Dual are both newtype constructors)
But I don't see a way to do it without being explicitly bidirectional:
pattern TSnoc xs x <- (tsViewR -> ViewR xs x) where
TSnoc (TSnocList xs) x = TSnocList (CL.TCons (Dual x) xs)
tsViewR :: TSnocList c x y -> ViewR c (TSnocList c) x y
tsViewR (TSnocList CL.TNil) = EmptyR
tsViewR (TSnocList (CL.TCons (Dual x) xs)) = ViewR (TSnocList xs) x
Would it be possible to make this simple thing simple?
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