Pepe Iborra wrote,
For a taste, see Instant Insanity transliterated in this functional
language:
http://hpaste.org/2689
I thought I'd better paste here the code for Instant Insanity with Type
Families. Otherwise it will vanish in a short time.
I took the opportunity to clean it up a bit.
Thanks!
Although AT are not a supported feature, the code works in a 6.8.1
snapshot.
But note that you cannot actually see the solution, as there is no way
to ask
GHCi to display the normalized types.
Just to complete transferring the discussion from the ephemeral
hpaste to the mailing list. My response to the lack of being able
to display normalised types was that GHC actually goes to
considerable trouble to preserve the original (non-normalised types)
for error messages and other output, as this usually makes these
messages easier to understand (eg, you usually rather like String
than [Char] in an error message).
However, to debug your type-level programs (or to abuse the type
checker as an evaluator) this is clearly inconvenient. So, the plan
is to add a ghci command that given a type will print its normal
form. On hpaste, Pepe also suggested a flag to instruct the
compiler to generally print normalised instead of unnormalised
types. However, I think a form of eval for types on the command
line is the most direct way of experimenting with type families and
debugging type-level programs.
Manuel
PS: And, no, you won't be able to set breakpoints in type-level
programs...
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