Qualified names in TH?

[Edward Kmett]

Using {-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-} you can use 'foo and ''Foo to get
access to the names in scope in the module that is building the splice,
rather than worrying about what names are in scope in the module the code
gets spliced into.

-Edward

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:54 PM, J. Garrett Morris <Garrett.Morris at ed.ac.uk
> wrote:

> I'm trying to write some Template Haskell code that (among other
> things) manipulates IntSets.  So, for example, I'd like a splice to
> generate a call to Data.IntSet.fromList.  However, I'm not sure how
> IntSet will be imported in the target module.  Is there a way to
> resolve the fully qualified name (or similar) to a TH Name, without
> having to know how it's imported in the splicing module?  (The obvious
> approach---mkName "Data.IntSet.fromList"---seems not to work in GHC
> 7.8.)
>
> Thanks!
>
>  /g
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