[Haskell-cafe] ANN: generic-deepseq 1.0.0.0

[Maxime Henrion]

On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 07:49 +0100, Jos Pedro Magalhes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2012/2/23 Maxime Henrion <mhenrion at gmail.com>
>         
>         > * Why do you have the instance:
>         >
>         > instance GDeepSeq V1 where grnf _ = ()
>         >
>         > The only way to construct values of a void type is using ⊥.
>         And I
>         > would expect that rnf ⊥ = ⊥, not (). I think the best thing
>         is to just
>         > remove the V1 instance.
>         
>         
>         This would have the consequence that any type tagged with a
>         phantom type
>         (for whatever reason) couldn't be used with deepseq, it would
>         return
>         bottom. What if I want to deepseq a 2-3 finger tree tagged
>         with a
>         type-level natural that ensures the proper shape of the tree
>         statically?
>         It seemed to me that I should be able to do that; this is why
>         I added
>         this V1 instance.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand your comment... V1 should only be used for
> datatypes without constructors, such as `data Empty`.

Yes, such as the usual type-level naturals (not using DataKinds):

data Z
data S n

Those can be used to tag a type which also contains actual values that
you would want to deepseq? For example, a length-type vector? I seemed
to remember a similar construct for 2-3 finger trees that would
statically guarantee that the shape of the tree is valid, so I took that
as an example, but I don't remember the specifics.

Cheers,
Maxime
> 
> 

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