[Template-haskell] Language Extensions and TH

Hugo Pacheco hpacheco at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 00:14:55 EDT 2008


Thanks,

It does look quite an immatuI re to be brought to template haskell, and I
doubt that it would be really necessary as a major feature. Myself, would
simply like to be able to write TH code to automatically generate type
family instances.

Cheers,
hugo

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Alfonso Acosta <alfonso.acosta at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Is there a TH and recent GHC's extension type-indexed families
> interaction
> > envisaged?
> > Is it feasible to think of such support?
> > I am not sure wether only Haskell 98 is supported or if any language
> > extension is supported.
>
> Some extensions such as functional dependencies, existentials and
> pattern guards are supported. However, I'm afraid that is not (yet)
> the case for type families: See
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1673 for details. It would
> be good if you added yourself to the CC list of the bug.
>
> Saludos,
>
> Fons
>
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