[Haskell-cafe] Pointwise Monoid with DerivingVia on n-tuples

[Georgi Lyubenov]

Hi!

I would like to use `DerivingVia` to do something like this:
```
import Data.Semigroup

data Four = Four Bool (Maybe Int) Bool Bool
  deriving (Semigroup, Monoid) via (Any, Option (First Int), Any, Any)
```

This, however, doesn't work, because `(Any, Option (First Int), Any, Any)`
is not coercible to `Four`.

Even if I do
```
data Four a b c d = Four a b c d

type Concrete = Four Bool (Maybe Int) Bool Bool
```
`Concrete` is still not coercible to `(Any, Option (First Int), Any, Any)`.

This seems like a very common thing you would want to do (for me at least
it pops up often, to want to have a `Monoid` instance that is just a
pointwise Monoid over it's arguments (exactly the way an n-tuple is a
`Monoid`). But I don't seem to be finding an easy way to do this. I am
aware of `generic-deriving` but `DerivingVia` seems like it should be able
to handle something like this, with only `Coercible` holding it back (?).

Thanks in advance,

=======
Georgi
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20190206/cfb3a350/attachment.html>