To throw out additional related work, I had a need for runtime values that capture type-level naturals. It’s used primarily for representing the widths in a type-safe bitvector formulas.
The code is a few years old, but publicly available here: https://github.com/GaloisInc/parameterized-utils/blob/master/src/Data/Parameterized/NatRepr.hs I’d be interested in knowing if there are now any comprehensive libraries for doing this sort of runtime reflection of type-level naturals. Regards, Joe > On May 24, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net> wrote: > > I'm glad to know. Thanks for the endorsement, Richard. > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 1:05 PM, Richard Eisenberg <r...@cs.brynmawr.edu> > wrote: > Just to add my 2 cents: I've played in this playground and used the same > structures as David. I second his suggestions. > > Richard > > >> On May 24, 2018, at 3:54 PM, Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net> wrote: >> >> Great! Thanks for the suggestion to use type equality and coerced `Refl`. - >> Conal >> >> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 10:43 AM, David Feuer <david.fe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, May 24, 2018, 1:03 PM Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net> wrote: >> Thanks for this suggestion, David. It seems to work out well, though I >> haven't tried running yet. >> >> > unsafeDict :: Dict c >> > unsafeDict = unsafeCoerce (Dict @ ()) >> > >> > unsafeSatisfy :: forall c a. (c => a) -> a >> > unsafeSatisfy z | Dict <- unsafeDict @ c = z >> >> This doesn't really smell right to me, no. Dict @() is actually a rather >> different value than you seek. In general, these look like they do way more >> than they ever can. I would suggest you look through those comparison >> *constraints* to the underlying type equalities involving the primitive >> CmpNat type family. >> >> -- Better, because there's only one Refl >> unsafeEqual :: forall a b. a :~: b >> unsafeEqual :: unsafeCoerce Refl >> >> unsafeWithEqual :: forall a b r. (a ~ b => r) -> r >> unsafeWithEqual r >> | Refl <- unsafeEqual @a @b = r >> >> compareEv = case .... of >> LT -> unsafeWithEqual @(CmpNat u v) @LT CompareLT >> ... >> >> >> Now we can define `compareEv`: >> >> > compareEv :: forall u v. KnownNat2 u v => CompareEv u v >> > compareEv = case natValAt @ u `compare` natValAt @ v of >> > LT -> unsafeSatisfy @ (u < v) CompareLT >> > EQ -> unsafeSatisfy @ (u ~ v) CompareEQ >> > GT -> unsafeSatisfy @ (u > v) CompareGT >> >> If anyone has other techniques to suggest, I'd love to hear. >> >> -- Conal >> >> >> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 5:44 PM, David Feuer <david.fe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think the usual approach for defining these sorts of primitive operations >> is to use unsafeCoerce. >> >> On Wed, May 23, 2018, 7:39 PM Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net> wrote: >> When programming with GHC's type-level natural numbers and `KnownNat` >> constraints, how can one construct *evidence* of the result of comparisons >> to be used in further computations? For instance, we might define a type for >> augmenting the results of `compare` with evidence: >> >> > data CompareEv u v >> > = (u < v) => CompareLT >> > | (u ~ v) => CompareEQ >> > | (u > v) => CompareGT >> >> Then I'd like to define a comparison operation (to be used with >> `AllowAmbiguousTypes` and `TypeApplications`, alternatively taking proxy >> arguments): >> >> > compareEv :: (KnownNat m, KnownNat n) => CompareEv u v >> >> With `compareEv`, we can bring evidence into scope in `case` expressions. >> >> I don't know how to implement `compareEv`. The following attempt fails to >> type-check, since `compare` doesn't produce evidence (which is the >> motivation for `compareEv` over `compare`): >> >> > compareEv = case natVal (Proxy @ u) `compare` natVal (Proxy @ v) of >> > LT -> CompareLT >> > EQ -> CompareEQ >> > GT -> CompareGT >> >> Can `compareEv` be implemented in GHC Haskell? Is there already an >> implementation of something similar? Any other advice? >> >> Thanks, -- Conal >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list >> Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list >> Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
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