I have a common pattern in my command-line programs; I start out with a
configuration data type, which over-simplified looks like:
data Cfg = Cfg { verbose :: Bool }
Now, there's usually a default configuration,
default :: Cfg
default = Cfg False
The user can override the defaults one of two ways, either via a config
file, or from the command-line. If both are specified, the command-line
takes precedence. The way I do this is with,
data OptionalCfg = OptionalCfg { verbose :: Maybe Bool }
And then I define I Monoid instance for OptionalCfg which lets me merge
two ofthem. Once the two OptionalCfgs are merged, I merge *that* with
the default Cfg.
This all works great, except that when there's 20 or so options, I
duplicate a ton of code in the definition of OptionalCfg. Is there some
pre-existing solution that will let me take a Cfg and create a new type
with Cfg's fields wrapped in Maybe?
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