[Haskell-cafe] Constrain Symbol to contain only alphabetic characters

[Richard Eisenberg]

I don't believe so. I think there's lots of room for improvement over the current capabilities for Symbol -- it was originally designed, I think, to be useful for record labels, so it didn't need any ability to decompose.

In the meantime, you could probably get what you need by using a list of one-character symbols and treating the list as a string. Use a quasiquoter to make the surface syntax palatable. You may also want lots of type-level manipulation functions as provided by the singletons library, which includes almost all of Data.List at the type level in its Data.Promotion.Prelude.List module.

Richard

On Sep 27, 2015, at 2:10 PM, Alexander Vieth <aovieth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Café,
> 
> Is it possible to do this? I looked through the source for GHC.TypeLits on hackage but found no leads.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Alex
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