[Haskell-cafe] RFC: explicit support for GADTs in Template Haskell

[Jan Stolarek]

> Shouldn't it be represented the same way as in GHC's own AST?
My personal opinion is that it should. But I wanted to hear what others have to say. If there is a 
strong bias towards option (2) I will re-consider my design decision.

Janek

> Especially 
> regarding a recent thread about unifying the two (IIRC).
>
> On 12/21/2015 07:52 PM, Jan Stolarek wrote:
> > GHC Users,
> >
> > I am working on adding proper support for GADTs in Template Haskell. By
> > proper I mean that GADTs data constructors will no longer be encoded
> > using H98 data constructors, but will be represented explicity.
> >
> > GADTs allow to declare several constructors with the same signature:
> >
> > data T where
> >   MkT1, MkT2 :: T
> >
> > The question is whether to represent such constructors in TH syntax as:
> >
> >   (1) GadtC [Name] [StrictType] Name [Type]  -- or:
> >   (2) GadtC  Name  [StrictType] Name [Type]
> >
> > Note the difference in first field. (1) is closer to the original syntax,
> > as it stores the list of all names in a single declaration, as was
> > originally written in the source code. (2) requires to have a separate
> > `GadtC` for each constructor even if constructors were declared together,
> > as in the example above.
> >
> > I would like to hear from TH users which of these two representations you
> > prefer. At the moment I have implemented (1) as it directly represents
> > source syntax. The downside of (1) is that information whether several
> > data constructors were declared together is not recoverable during
> > reification, and so reifying T will yield:
> >
> > data T where
> >   MkT1 :: T
> >   MkT2 :: T
> >
> > Janek
> >
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