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toDyn :: Typeable * a => a -> Dynamic

Converts an arbitrary value into an object of type Dynamic.

The type of the object must be an instance of Typeable, which ensures that only monomorphically-typed objects may be converted to Dynamic. To convert a polymorphic object into Dynamic, give it a monomorphic type signature. For example:

   toDyn (id :: Int -> Int)

data Dynamic :: *

A value of type Dynamic is an object encapsulated together with its type.

A Dynamic may only represent a monomorphic value; an attempt to create a value of type Dynamic from a polymorphically-typed expression will result in an ambiguity error (see toDyn).

Showing a value of type Dynamic returns a pretty-printed representation of the object's type; useful for debugging.

Instances

Show Dynamic

Exception Dynamic

Typeable * Dynamic

data WrapData

Constructors

forall a . Data a => WrapData a

Instances

Typeable * WrapData

wrapData :: Data a => a -> WrapData

data WrapData2

Constructors

forall a . Data a => WrapData2 a a

Instances

Typeable * WrapData2

class Typeable * a => Data a

The Data class comprehends a fundamental primitive gfoldl for folding over constructor applications, say terms. This primitive can be instantiated in several ways to map over the immediate subterms of a term; see the gmap combinators later in this class. Indeed, a generic programmer does not necessarily need to use the ingenious gfoldl primitive but rather the intuitive gmap combinators. The gfoldl primitive is completed by means to query top-level constructors, to turn constructor representations into proper terms, and to list all possible datatype constructors. This completion allows us to serve generic programming scenarios like read, show, equality, term generation.

The combinators gmapT, gmapQ, gmapM, etc are all provided with default definitions in terms of gfoldl, leaving open the opportunity to provide datatype-specific definitions. (The inclusion of the gmap combinators as members of class Data allows the programmer or the compiler to derive specialised, and maybe more efficient code per datatype. Note: gfoldl is more higher-order than the gmap combinators. This is subject to ongoing benchmarking experiments. It might turn out that the gmap combinators will be moved out of the class Data.)

Conceptually, the definition of the gmap combinators in terms of the primitive gfoldl requires the identification of the gfoldl function arguments. Technically, we also need to identify the type constructor c for the construction of the result type from the folded term type.

In the definition of gmapQx combinators, we use phantom type constructors for the c in the type of gfoldl because the result type of a query does not involve the (polymorphic) type of the term argument. In the definition of gmapQl we simply use the plain constant type constructor because gfoldl is left-associative anyway and so it is readily suited to fold a left-associative binary operation over the immediate subterms. In the definition of gmapQr, extra effort is needed. We use a higher-order accumulation trick to mediate between left-associative constructor application vs. right-associative binary operation (e.g., (:)). When the query is meant to compute a value of type r, then the result type withing generic folding is r -> r. So the result of folding is a function to which we finally pass the right unit.

With the -XDeriveDataTypeable option, GHC can generate instances of the Data class automatically. For example, given the declaration

data T a b = C1 a b | C2 deriving (Typeable, Data)

GHC will generate an instance that is equivalent to

instance (Data a, Data b) => Data (T a b) where
    gfoldl k z (C1 a b) = z C1 `k` a `k` b
    gfoldl k z C2       = z C2

    gunfold k z c = case constrIndex c of
                        1 -> k (k (z C1))
                        2 -> z C2

    toConstr (C1 _ _) = con_C1
    toConstr C2       = con_C2

    dataTypeOf _ = ty_T

con_C1 = mkConstr ty_T "C1" [] Prefix
con_C2 = mkConstr ty_T "C2" [] Prefix
ty_T   = mkDataType "Module.T" [con_C1, con_C2]

This is suitable for datatypes that are exported transparently.

Minimal complete definition

gunfold, toConstr, dataTypeOf

Instances

Data Bool

Data Char

Data Double

Data Float

Data Int

Data Int8

Data Int16

Data Int32

Data Int64

Data Integer

Data Ordering

Data Word

Data Word8

Data Word16

Data Word32

Data Word64

Data ()

Data Version

Data LocalTime

Data ZonedTime

Data a => Data [a]

(Data a, Integral a) => Data (Ratio a)

(Data a, Typeable * a) => Data (Ptr a)

(Data a, Typeable * a) => Data (ForeignPtr a)

Data a => Data (Maybe a)

(Data a, Data b) => Data (Either a b)

(Data a, Data b) => Data (a, b)

(Typeable * a, Data a, Data b, Ix a) => Data (Array a b)

Data t => Data (Proxy * t)

(Data a, Data b, Data c) => Data (a, b, c)

(Coercible * a b, Data a, Data b) => Data (Coercion * a b)

((~) * a b, Data a) => Data ((:~:) * a b)

(Data a, Data b, Data c, Data d) => Data (a, b, c, d)

(Data a, Data b, Data c, Data d, Data e) => Data (a, b, c, d, e)

(Data a, Data b, Data c, Data d, Data e, Data f) => Data (a, b, c, d, e, f)

(Data a, Data b, Data c, Data d, Data e, Data f, Data g) => Data (a, b, c, d, e, f, g)

data TestCase

Constructors

forall a prop . (Testable prop, Data a) => TestCase (((String, a, a) -> Property) -> prop)

Instances

Typeable * TestCase

newtype QCInt

Constructors

QCInt Int

Instances

Show QCInt

Arbitrary QCInt

newtype QCNat

Constructors

QCNat Int

Instances

Show QCNat

Arbitrary QCNat

newtype QCBool

Constructors

QCBool Bool

Instances

Show QCBool

Arbitrary QCBool