[Haskell-cafe] How to derive instance for type without exported
constructor?
Grigory Sarnitskiy
sargrigory at ya.ru
Fri Sep 4 07:58:00 EDT 2009
In System.Random StdGen is defined as
data StdGen = StdGen Int32 Int32
but its constructor StdGen is not exported. How to make StdGen to be an instance of Binary? The following won't work:
instance Data.Binary.Binary StdGen where
put (StdGen aa ab) = do
Data.Binary.put aa
Data.Binary.put ab
get = do
aa <- get
ab <- get
return (StdGen aa ab)
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