Easily generating efficient instances for classes

Neil Mitchell ndmitchell at gmail.com
Tue Mar 2 08:30:12 EST 2010


Hi

Derive generates declarations - they can be instances, classes, data
types, functions, type synonyms etc.

Thanks, Neil

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, John Lato <jwlato at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Christian H?ner zu Siederdissen
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am thinking about how to easily generate instances for a class. Each
>> instance is a tuple with 1 or more elements. In addition there is a
>> second tuple with the same number of elements but different type. This
>> means getting longer and longer chains of something like (...,x3*x2,x2,0).
>>
>> - template haskell?
>> - CPP and macros?
>>
>> Consider arrays with fast access like Data.Vector, but with higher
>> dimensionality. Basically, I want (!) to fuse when used in Data.Vector
>> code.
>
> (shameless plug) You may want to look at my AdaptiveTuple package,
> which does something very similar to this.  I used Template Haskell
> because AFAIK neither generic approaches nor DrIFT/Derive will
> generate data decls.
>
> If all you need are the instances, then DrIFT or Derive would be my
> recommendations.
>
> Cheers,
> John
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