[Haskell-cafe] Need an example of new type constructor with zero data constructors

[Adam Bergmark]

What you posted is the format for data declarations, not newtypes. Newtypes
are required to have exactly one constructor:

newtype [context =>] simpletype = newconstr [deriving]


Adam

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 4:43 PM, James Brown <james.brown5374 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In the Haskell report 2010, a data declaration has the format of:
>
>
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> For a new type, there could be zero or more data constructors. What's the
> use case for a new type that has zero data constructor?
>
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