Rewrapping with simple bidirectional pattern synonyms

[Matthew Pickering]

The relevant ticket is - https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12203



On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:11 PM, David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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