lift-generics

GHC.Generics-based Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax.lift implementation

https://github.com/RyanGlScott/lift-generics

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Module documentation for 0.2

lift-generics

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This package provides a GHC.Generics-based genericLiftWithPkg function (intended for GHC 7.10 and earlier), as well as a genericLift function (only available on GHC 8.0 and later), both of which can be used for providing a Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax.lift implementation. See the documentation in the Language.Haskell.TH.Lift.Generics module to get started.

Credit goes to Matthew Pickering for suggesting this idea.

Note that due to API limitations, GHC.Generics wasn’t powerful enough to come up with the entirety of a lift implementation prior to GHC 8.0. For this reason, genericLiftWithPkg requires you to produce the package name yourself, which proves to be no small feat (see the documentation for more info).

Luckily, you don’t have to jump through as many hoops on GHC 8.0 and later: simply use the genericLift function, and life is good.

Changes

0.2 [2020.09.30]

  • genericLiftTyped and genericLiftTypedWithPkg now return a Code instead of a TExp to reflect the type of liftTyped changing in template-haskell-2.17.0.0. New functions genericLiftTypedTExp and genericLiftTypedTExpWithPkg have been added for those who wish to return TExp specifically. In addition, the functions genericLiftTypedCompat and genericLiftTypedCompatWithPkg have been introduced which return a Code on template-haskell-2.17.0.0 or later, but a TExp on older versions of template-haskell. These functions are most useful for implementing liftTyped in a Lift instance in a backwards-compatible way.

    The th-compat library is used to backport the Code data type back to versions of template-haskell that do not define it.

  • The functions in Language.Haskell.TH.Lift.Generics are now generalized to work over any Quote instance instead of hardcoding Q. Again, the th-compat library is used to backport Quote to old versions of template-haskell that do not define it.

  • Make genericLift work properly for empty data types.

0.1.3 [2019.11.26]

  • Add genericLiftTyped and genericLiftTypedWithPkg.

0.1.2

  • Add a case for V1 (i.e., empty data types), which diverges in the way you’d expect.

0.1.1

  • Fix test suite on GHC 8.0

0.1

  • Initial commit