GHC.Generics and instances of Functor, Applicative, etc?

[Edward Kmett]

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9043 is the current ticket for
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net> wrote:

> I'm using GHC.Generics and have noticed that the data types defined there
> don't have instances of the standard classes (at least not defined in that
> module), such as Functor, Applicative, Foldable and Traversable. It'd be
> very useful to be able to rely on such instances, so that one can define
> instances of custom types via instances of the generic types. (Hopefully,
> the compiler can remove most or all conversion overhead) Is there any
> reason not to add these generic instances?
>
> -- Conal
>
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