[Haskell-cafe] Is it possible to get the information of instances of a type?

[Magicloud Magiclouds]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No, this lists all the instances of a class.  OP asked for the classes
>> of which a given type is an instace.
>>
>> Presumably it is possible, since Haddock does it!  In the
>> documentation generated for a type it lists classes of which the type
>> is an instance.  So you might want to look at how Haddock does it.  I
>> suspect the only way is through the GHC API.
>
> ghci :info does it too.
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Generally looked into GHC's source, seems like the :info (line 850 of
compiler/main/InteractiveEval.hs) is internal function. At last, GHC
parsed the code, it sure knew the type info.

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