[Haskell-cafe] Trying to make a Typeable instance
Adrian Hey
ahey at iee.org
Sat Jul 7 01:16:00 EDT 2007
Hello,
I'm trying to make the type (ListGT map k a) an instance of Typeable,
where map is kind (* -> *).
data ListGT map k a
= Empt
| BraF ![k] a !(map (ListGT map k a))
| BraE ![k] !(map (ListGT map k a))
I thought I'd cracked it with something like this..
instance (Typeable (map (ListGT map k a)), Typeable k, Typeable a) =>
Typeable (ListGT map k a) where
typeOf lgt = mkTyConApp (mkTyCon "Data.Trie.General.ListGT")
[mTypeRep, kTypeRep, aTypeRep]
where BraF [k] a m = lgt -- This is just to get types for k a m !!
kTypeRep = typeOf k
aTypeRep = typeOf a
mTypeRep = typeOf m
However, showing the resulting TypRep gives a stack overflow. I wasn't
too surprised about this, so I tried replacing the last line with..
mTypeRep = mkTyConApp (typeRepTyCon (typeOf m)) []
..thinking that this would make it terminate. But it doesn't.
Could someone explain how to do this?
Thanks
--
Adrian Hey
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