[Haskell-cafe] "SameConstraints?" type constraints

[Emil Axelsson]

Den 2015-06-19 22:13, Leza Morais Lutonda skrev:
> On 06/19/2015 08:44 AM, Sean Leather wrote:
>> Note this won't work for a Num instance mentioned earlier because the
>> existentially quantified d types in two SC values are not provably the
>> same type. In other words, you can't write
>>
>> instance Num e => Show (S Num e) where
>>     SC x1 y1 + SC x2 y2 = SC (x1 + x2) (y1 + y2)
>>
>> because x1 and x2 can have different types.
> Another issue is: what if I want to constraint the type `e` to more
> classes and make `d` to have the same constrains? I have to re-declare
> the `S` data type like?:
>
> data S c1 c2 ... cN e where
>
>      SC :: (c1 d, c2 d, ..., cN d) -> d -> e -> S c1 c2 ... cN e
>
>
> Does anyone ever needed such a feature?

Yes, have a look at the paper "Deconstraing DSLs":

   http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2364571

See also the constraint product (&&&) from the `constraints` package.

/ Emil