GHC rewrite rules for class operations & laws

Ben Gamari ben at smart-cactus.org
Wed Jan 4 14:34:00 UTC 2017


Welcome back, Simon!

Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> writes:

> |  Indeed, we could eliminate several hundred lines of boilerplate in GHC if we
> |  could lift this restriction.
>
> Can you be more specific?  Which hundreds of lines?
>
In particular the bindings in Data.Int and Data.Word (e.g. GHC.Int.eqInt8,
GHC.Word.gtWord64).

> Do add this info to the ticket when Gorge makes it.  Or just make one!
>
The ticket is #13044.

Cheers,

- Ben
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