[Haskell-cafe] GHC.Generics and newtypes

[Roman Cheplyaka]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. What I want is somehow to find out whether the
type under consideration is declared using data or newtype.

Is it possible?

Roman

* José Pedro Magalhães <jpm at cs.uu.nl> [2013-01-27 20:29:52+0000]
> Hi Roman,
> 
> Yes, the automatic derivation of Generic instances does not see through
> newtypes.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Pedro
> 
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to generate different instances for newtypes and
> > datatypes using GHC.Generics?
> >
> > Roman
> >
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