[Haskell-cafe] Avoiding code-duplication for what is roughly fmap

[Yuji Yamamoto]

Use DeriveGenerics, and higgledy <https://github.com/i-am-tom/higgledy> (or
some packages supporting higher kinded data) would help you.

2019年10月4日(金) 5:56 Sebastiaan Joosten <sjcjoosten+haskelcafe at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a lot of code that looks like this:
> instance WhiteSpaced ClassItem where
>   removeWS (Method a b c) = Method (removeWS a) (removeWS b) (removeWS c)
>   removeWS (Declaration b) = Declaration (removeWS b)
>
> Typically, all the way at the end there's an instance that deviates
> (sometimes the deviating instances are somewhere in the middle). I need to
> do this for a lot of functions, and a lot of data types, and all I'm doing
> here is rewriting the data-type declaration in a different syntax (except
> that you do not know the types of a, b and c from the above). For the sake
> of maintainability, I want to avoid this code-duplication and focus only on
> the deviating instances.
>
> How to do better? I don't see how to use generics (in the hope of only
> writing 'instance WhiteSpaced ClassItem where' instead of the three lines
> above) for this: the types for a, b and c are all different here. Would
> this be easier with Template Haskell? (in the hope of only writing
> $(''something ClassItem) instead of the three lines above)
>
> My main concern is maintainability, an ideal solution is either a clear
> one-liner or a library import (in the same way that aeson allows me to use
> generics or Template Haskell without needing to know much about them).
> Other solutions are welcome too.
>
> Best,
>
> Sebastiaan
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