Proposal: Derive Lift for all data types in the template-haskell library

[Richard Eisenberg]

+1 from me. Now that it's so easy, I think Lift should be instanced for all concrete types exported from the boot libraries. Do make sure to communicate with the authors of th-lift and th-orphans at some point, though.

Richard

On Sep 22, 2015, at 10:12 AM, Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.scott at gmail.com> wrote:

> The DeriveLift extension has landed in GHC HEAD, so now it's become apparent that the bikeshed needs a new coat of paint. The only Lift instances at the moment are base types [1], but with DeriveLift, it would be possible to implement Lift for many for data types with ease.
> 
> I'll make (what I hope is) an uncontroversial first suggestion: we should derive Lift for every data type in the template-haskell library itself. These instances have proved to be useful for library authors who need to convert to and from the TH AST (th-desugar, for example, relies on this functionality via orphan instances [2]).
> 
> Adding this would break some code out in the wild (the th-lift [3] and th-orphans [4] packages come to mind; there may be others), so I'll request feedback before marching forth with this proposal.
> 
> Ryan S.
> 
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> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/template-haskell-2.10.0.0/docs/Language-Haskell-TH-Syntax.html#t:Lift
> [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/th-desugar-1.5.4.1/docs/src/Language-Haskell-TH-Desugar-Lift.html
> [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/th-lift
> [4] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/th-orphans
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