[Haskell-cafe] lift in TemplateHaskell?

[Lyle Kopnicky]

Hi folks,

I'm having trouble reading the TemplateHaskell docs and trying to do
something that seems like it should be simple. In MetaML, there is a 'lift'
function which does exactly what I want to do. Here's an example function:

let double n = [| 2 * $( litE (integerL n) ) |]

This works as intended, but instead of writing "litE (integerL n)" I just
want to write "lift n", or something similar. I expect that would involve a
type class called something like Liftable that would lift literals using the
appropriate functions. Does this exist?

Thanks,
Lyle
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