[Haskell-cafe] Optional "Default" instances of classes in certain subcases (but too broad)

[Juan Casanova]

> Does that accommodate the use cases you’re looking for?

It probably does, to be honest. I need to try it, but from your  
example I gather that the newtype is only defined so that the deriving  
can be used, but I do not ever need to explicitly use the newtype that  
I declared in order to be able to derive the functor instance. It is  
essentially what I said, except it uses the newtype as a "carrier" for  
the optional instance.

Thanks. If I find out any use case where it's not enough I'll come  
back here, but it does look like it's enough.

Juan.


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