[Haskell-cafe] Constructing a datatype given just its constructor
as a string?
Hugh Perkins
hughperkins at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 08:20:54 EDT 2007
Trying to create a datatype/constructor given just its constructor as a
string, something like:
mkConstr :: String -> Constr
parseData :: (Data a) => String -> a
***without knowing in advance anything about the datatype apart from the
string contents***
So, not something like:
parseData "Just 3" :: [Maybe]
but simply:
parseData "Just 3"
(This is linked to the other post: the goal is to be able to deserialize xml
without needing to know in advance the data type we are deserializing)
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