Thank you, Ralf. Curiosity satisfied. :) Markus
-- Markus Schnell > There is just one Generic Haskell project > even though the actual language extension is a moving target of course > because this is an active project. > > The boilerplate approach is about lightweight generic programming IN > Haskell. > The fact that the boilerplate approach is supported by GHC is > very, very > convenient, but in a sense optional: in principle, you could write > Typeable and Data > instances yourself, and you could still leverage generic > programming in > Haskell. Anyway, some more information can be found on the > boilerplate > page. > > Using both approaches together would be quite cool!?! > There is no technical reason why this would be impossible. > But it is certainly not the case that the two approaches are > complementary. > They overlap quite a bit. The boilerplate approach tries to > be easy in the > traversal arena. In the literature, there are some comments > on how these and > other approaches relate. I would still find it interesting to see a > survey that > works through some examples and compares the two approaches > and others. > > Ralf _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell