[Haskell-cafe] Possible to automatically determine typeclass membership?

[Alfonso Acosta]

Hopefully, accessing the instance environment from Tempalte Haskell
will be possible in next GHC's release:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1835

2008/3/31 jeff p <mutjida at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
>
> > Is it possible in Haskell + GHC extensions to use reflection
> >  techniques to determine typeclass membership?  I'm thinking of things
> >  like the following:
> >
> I think the short answer is not in general; i.e. I don't think there is any
> way to access the members of an arbitrary typeclass (but I'd love to be
> proved wrong).
>
> However, you could always explicitly list the members of a typeclass you are
> interested in (this is similar to your Idea 2):
>
> {-# OPTIONS_GHC -fglasgow-exts -fallow-undecidable-instances
> -fallow-overlapping-instances #-}
>
> class InEq a b | a -> b where inEq :: a -> Bool
> instance TypeCast b HFalse => InEq a b where inEq _ = False
> instance InEq Int HTrue where inEq _ = True
> instance InEq a b => InEq [a] b where inEq _ = inEq (undefined :: a)
>
> data HTrue
> data HFalse
>
> class TypeCast   a b   | a -> b, b-> a   where typeCast   :: a -> b
> class TypeCast'  t a b | t a -> b, t b -> a where typeCast'  :: t -> a -> b
> class TypeCast'' t a b | t a -> b, t b -> a where typeCast'' :: t -> a -> b
>  instance TypeCast'  () a b => TypeCast a b where typeCast x = typeCast' ()
> x
> instance TypeCast'' t a b => TypeCast' t a b where typeCast' = typeCast''
> instance TypeCast'' () a a where typeCast'' _ x  = x
>
> You can also do an arguably nicer, more flexible version of the previous by
> recreating some of the typeclass machinery yourself; Oleg has several
> examples of this such as: //okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/poly2.txt
>
>  -Jeff
>
>
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