[Haskell-cafe] SYB and opaque types

[Joel Reymont]

Suppose I need to manually derive Data and Typeable for SourcePos  
from Parsec to make sure my code compiles. I won't actually be  
running the code I manually derive since the constructor that  
includes SourcePos will be skipped.

With Neil Mitchell's (and #haskell) help I'm doing this to strip  
token locations from my AST:

import Data.Generics
import qualified Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec as P

instance Data SourcePos where
     gfoldl r k x = k x

typename_SourcePos = mkTyCon "SourcePos"

instance Typeable SourcePos
     where typeOf _ = mkTyConApp typename_SourcePos ([])

strip = everywhere (mkT f)
     where f (TokenPos a _) = a
           f x = x

I know that the warnings about gunfold, toConstr and dataTypeOf are  
harmless but how would I define them to avoid the warnings?

Also, the definition of strip above requires -fno-monomorphism- 
restriction. Should I not worry about it? The code runs just fine,  
locations are being stripped and tests pass.

	Thanks, Joel

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