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Data.Foldable.Deriving

Exports functions to mechanically derive Foldable instances in a way that mimics how the -XDeriveFoldable extension works since GHC 8.0.

These changes make it possible to derive Foldable instances for data types with existential constraints, e.g.,

data WrappedSet a where
    WrapSet :: Ord a => a -> WrappedSet a

deriving instance Foldable WrappedSet -- On GHC 8.0  on later
$(deriveFoldable ''WrappedSet)        -- On GHC 7.10 and earlier

In addition, derived Foldable instances from this module do not generate superfluous mempty expressions in its implementation of foldMap. One can verify this by compiling a module that uses deriveFoldable with the -ddump-splices GHC flag.

For more info on these changes, see this GHC wiki page.

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  • 13 values

Foldable

12 declarations
valuemakeFold :: Name -> Q Exp
#

Generates a lambda expression which behaves like fold (without requiring a Foldable instance).

FFTOptions

2 declarations
newtypenewtype FFTOptions
#

Options that further configure how the functions in Data.Functor.Deriving should behave. (FFT stands for FunctorFoldableTraversable.)

Constructors

  • FFTOptions
    • fftEmptyCaseBehavior :: Bool

      If True, derived instances for empty data types (i.e., ones with no data constructors) will use the EmptyCase language extension. If False, derived instances will simply use seq instead. (This has no effect on GHCs before 7.8, since EmptyCase is only available in 7.8 or later.)

Instances4Eq, Ord, Read, Show
  • Eq FFTOptionsDefined in deriving-compat-0.6.8 · Data.Functor.Deriving.Internal
  • Ord FFTOptionsDefined in deriving-compat-0.6.8 · Data.Functor.Deriving.Internal
  • Read FFTOptionsDefined in deriving-compat-0.6.8 · Data.Functor.Deriving.Internal
  • Show FFTOptionsDefined in deriving-compat-0.6.8 · Data.Functor.Deriving.Internal

deriveFoldable limitations

0 declarations

Be aware of the following potential gotchas:

  • If you are using the -XGADTs or -XExistentialQuantification extensions, an existential constraint cannot mention the last type variable. For example, data Illegal a = forall a. Show a => Illegal a cannot have a derived Functor instance.

  • Type variables of kind * -> * are assumed to have Foldable constraints. If this is not desirable, use makeFoldr or makeFoldMap.