[Haskell-cafe] Derived Read instance for types with infix constructors (ghc 6.4.1)

Misha Aizatulin avatar at hot.ee
Sat Sep 9 11:36:36 EDT 2006


Daniel Fischer wrote:

> Another thing:
> Would it be a good idea to create derived Read instances that could parse 
> both, "A `And` A" and "And A A" ?
> Since 6.4.2 parses the former and 6.2.2 parses the latter that should be 
> possible, I believe (and both forms are accepted at the ghci prompt).

  I made a Template Haskell function that does exactly that. I wrote
about it to the template-haskell list:

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/template-haskell/2006-September/000587.html

Cheers,
  Misha


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