boring

Boring and Absurd types

https://github.com/phadej/boring

LTS Haskell 23.3:0.2.2@rev:1
Stackage Nightly 2025-01-12:0.2.2@rev:1
Latest on Hackage:0.2.2@rev:1

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Maintained by Oleg.Grenrus
This version can be pinned in stack with:boring-0.2.2@sha256:f6d705c30830a337862210f12c4ce38d5ab4d3660631e0214b504f10815a2e8d,1779

Module documentation for 0.2.2

Used by 8 packages in nightly-2025-01-12(full list with versions):
bin, constraints, dec, fin, ral, singleton-bool, streams, vec

  • Boring types are isomorphic to ().

  • Absurd types are isomorphic to Void.

See What does () mean in Haskell -answer by Conor McBride

Changes

Revision history for boring

0.2.2

  • Support GHC-8.6.5…9.10.1

0.2.1

  • Add instances for SNat, SSymbol, and SChar (singletons introduced in base-4.18.0.0)

0.2

  • Make boring package dependency light. fin, bin, ral, vec, dec, singleton-bool instances are migrated to corresponding packages. Rest are migrated to boring-instances for now.
  • Data.Boring is Trustworthy
  • Add Generic derivation. Thanks to David Feuer.

0.1.3

  • Allow vec-0.3
  • Add instances for ral and bin types.

0.1.2

  • Add instances for ‘Boring’ instances for ‘SBool’, ‘SNat’ and ‘LE’.
  • Add ‘Boring (Dec a)’, ‘boringYes’ and ‘boringNo’.

0.1.1

  • Add GHC.Generics instances
  • Add :~~: and Coercion instances

0.1

  • streams, constraints, generics-sop instances.
  • Reversed dependency with vec, add fin instances.

0

  • First version. Released on an unsuspecting world.