[Haskell] new "primitive" instances of Data?

Abraham Egnor aegnor at antioch-college.edu
Thu Jan 29 11:48:18 EST 2004


I'm in the process of trying to write generic binary serialization code
using the "Scrap Your Boilerplate" method.  One bump I've run into is that
there are no instances of Data provided for the extended set of numeric
types (the stuff in Data.Word, etc.) and it seems to be impossible to
hand-write an instance that behaves similarly to the instances for other
primitive types.  Any ideas for ways around this?



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