Hi Roman, Template Haskell should be the preferred way to cope with these "boilerplate" code problems.
Template Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Template_Haskell Note: I'm a beginner myself so please wait for a more informed response. Paolo 2009/9/28 Roman Naumann <roman_naum...@fastmail.fm>: > The following function converts the data read from an sql database to a > player data structure. > > toPlayer :: [SqlValue] -> Player > toPlayer sx = Player { > plID = fromSql (sx!!0), > plAccount = fromSql (sx!!1), > plForename = fromSql (sx!!2), > plSurename = fromSql (sx!!3), > plPos_x = fromSql (sx!!4), > plPos_y = fromSql (sx!!5) > } > > > It appears to me, that I have to write this boilerplate code every time I > introduce a new data structure that has to be read from the sql database. > Can you think of a way to automate this? > > Thanks for your replies, > Roman Naumann _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
