[Haskell-cafe] understanding generics

[José Pedro Magalhães]

Hello Anatoly,

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 20:44, Anatoly Yakovenko <aeyakovenko at gmail.com>wrote:

> i am trying to understand how data.data works.  How would i traverse
> the subterms of one type and build another type out of them.
> something like this:
>
> > gmapQ (\a -> Right a) (Just "hello")


I am not sure I understand what you're trying to do here. However, in
general, 'gmapQ' is used in combination with 'mkQ' or 'extQ'. Those are not
in Data.Data: you can import Data.Generics to get everything syb-related.


Cheers,
Pedro


>
>
> <interactive>:1:0:
>    Inferred type is less polymorphic than expected
>      Quantified type variable `d' escapes
>    In the first argument of `gmapQ', namely `(\ a -> Right a)'
>    In the expression: gmapQ (\ a -> Right a) (Just "hello")
>    In the definition of `it':
>        it = gmapQ (\ a -> Right a) (Just "hello")
>
>
> Thanks,
> Anatoly
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