At 10:15 06/12/04 +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| This is where I find ghc's newtype deriving to be incredibly useful.
|
| newtype CPError a = CPError (Either Error a)
|         deriving(Monad,MonadError)
|
| now CPError is a monad and an instance of MonadError and you are free
to
| override or inherit more interesting instances at will without
| conflicting with the basic types for Either :)

Aha!  I've always wondered whether anyone uses this feature, which I
implemented at John Hughes's suggestion.  I'd be interested to know if
you are alone, or whether others do so too.

Not a user, but sounds maybe interesting. Can you point to documentation?

#g


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