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GHC.Types.Name

Description

GHC uses several kinds of name internally:

Names are one of:

  • External, if they name things declared in other modules. Some external Names are wired in, i.e. they name primitives defined in the compiler itself
  • Internal, if they name things in the module being compiled. Some internal Names are system names, if they are names manufactured by the compiler
Synopsis

The main types

data Name Source #

A unique, unambiguous name for something, containing information about where that thing originated.

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Data Name Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Types.Name

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gfoldl :: (forall d b. Data d => c (d -> b) -> d -> c b) -> (forall g. g -> c g) -> Name -> c Name Source #

gunfold :: (forall b r. Data b => c (b -> r) -> c r) -> (forall r. r -> c r) -> Constr -> c Name Source #

toConstr :: Name -> Constr Source #

dataTypeOf :: Name -> DataType Source #

dataCast1 :: Typeable t => (forall d. Data d => c (t d)) -> Maybe (c Name) Source #

dataCast2 :: Typeable t => (forall d e. (Data d, Data e) => c (t d e)) -> Maybe (c Name) Source #

gmapT :: (forall b. Data b => b -> b) -> Name -> Name Source #

gmapQl :: (r -> r' -> r) -> r -> (forall d. Data d => d -> r') -> Name -> r Source #

gmapQr :: forall r r'. (r' -> r -> r) -> r -> (forall d. Data d => d -> r') -> Name -> r Source #

gmapQ :: (forall d. Data d => d -> u) -> Name -> [u] Source #

gmapQi :: Int -> (forall d. Data d => d -> u) -> Name -> u Source #

gmapM :: Monad m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> Name -> m Name Source #

gmapMp :: MonadPlus m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> Name -> m Name Source #

gmapMo :: MonadPlus m => (forall d. Data d => d -> m d) -> Name -> m Name Source #

NFData Name Source # 
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rnf :: Name -> () Source #

NamedThing Name Source # 
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HasOccName Name Source # 
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occName :: Name -> OccName Source #

Uniquable Name Source # 
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Binary Name Source #

Assumes that the Name is a non-binding one. See putIfaceTopBndr and getIfaceTopBndr for serializing binding Names. See UserData for the rationale for this distinction.

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Outputable Name Source # 
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ppr :: Name -> SDoc Source #

OutputableBndr Name Source # 
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Eq Name Source #

The same comments as for Name's Ord instance apply.

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(==) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

(/=) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

Ord Name Source #

Caution: This instance is implemented via nonDetCmpUnique, which means that the ordering is not stable across deserialization or rebuilds.

See nonDetCmpUnique for further information, and trac #15240 for a bug caused by improper use of this instance.

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compare :: Name -> Name -> Ordering #

(<) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

(<=) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

(>) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

(>=) :: Name -> Name -> Bool #

max :: Name -> Name -> Name #

min :: Name -> Name -> Name #

type Anno Name Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Hs.Extension

type Anno (LocatedN Name) Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Hs.Binds

type Anno [LocatedN Name] Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Hs.Binds

data BuiltInSyntax Source #

BuiltInSyntax is for things like (:), [] and tuples, which have special syntactic forms. They aren't in scope as such.

Constructors

BuiltInSyntax 
UserSyntax 

Creating Names

mkSystemName :: Unique -> OccName -> Name Source #

Create a name brought into being by the compiler

mkInternalName :: Unique -> OccName -> SrcSpan -> Name Source #

Create a name which is (for now at least) local to the current module and hence does not need a GenModule to disambiguate it from other Names

mkFCallName :: Unique -> FastString -> Name Source #

Make a name for a foreign call

mkExternalName :: Unique -> Module -> OccName -> SrcSpan -> Name Source #

Create a name which definitely originates in the given module

mkWiredInName :: Module -> OccName -> Unique -> TyThing -> BuiltInSyntax -> Name Source #

Create a name which is actually defined by the compiler itself

Manipulating and deconstructing Names

localiseName :: Name -> Name Source #

Make the Name into an internal name, regardless of what it was to begin with

pprName :: forall doc. IsLine doc => Name -> doc Source #

pprFullName :: Module -> Name -> SDoc Source #

Print fully qualified name (with unit-id, module and unique)

pprTickyName :: Module -> Name -> SDoc Source #

Print a ticky ticky styled name

Module argument is the module to use for internal and system names. When printing the name in a ticky profile, the module name is included even for local things. However, ticky uses the format "x (M)" rather than "M.x". Hence, this function provides a separation from normal styling.

Predicates on Names

isDynLinkName :: Platform -> Module -> Name -> Bool Source #

Will the Name come from a dynamically linked package?

isWiredIn :: NamedThing thing => thing -> Bool Source #

nameIsLocalOrFrom :: Module -> Name -> Bool Source #

Returns True if the name is (a) Internal (b) External but from the specified module (c) External but from the interactive package

The key idea is that False means: the entity is defined in some other module you can find the details (type, fixity, instances) in some interface file those details will be stored in the EPT or HPT

True means: the entity is defined in this module or earlier in the GHCi session you can find details (type, fixity, instances) in the TcGblEnv or TcLclEnv

The isInteractiveModule part is because successive interactions of a GHCi session each give rise to a fresh module (Ghci1, Ghci2, etc), but they all come from the magic interactive package; and all the details are kept in the TcLclEnv, TcGblEnv, NOT in the HPT or EPT. See Note [The interactive package] in GHC.Runtime.Context

nameIsExternalOrFrom :: Module -> Name -> Bool Source #

Returns True if the name is external or from the interactive package See documentation of nameIsLocalOrFrom function

nameIsFromExternalPackage :: HomeUnit -> Name -> Bool Source #

Returns True if the Name comes from some other package: neither this package nor the interactive package.

stableNameCmp :: Name -> Name -> Ordering Source #

Compare Names lexicographically This only works for Names that originate in the source code or have been tidied.

Class NamedThing and overloaded friends

class NamedThing a where Source #

A class allowing convenient access to the Name of various datatypes

Minimal complete definition

getName

Methods

getOccName :: a -> OccName Source #

getName :: a -> Name Source #

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NamedThing Class Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Core.Class

NamedThing ConLike Source # 
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NamedThing DataCon Source # 
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NamedThing FamInst Source # 
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NamedThing ClsInst Source # 
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NamedThing PatSyn Source # 
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NamedThing TyCon Source # 
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NamedThing IfaceClassOp Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Iface.Syntax

NamedThing IfaceConDecl Source # 
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NamedThing IfaceDecl Source # 
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NamedThing HoleFitCandidate Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Tc.Errors.Hole.FitTypes

NamedThing Name Source # 
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NamedThing TyThing Source # 
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NamedThing Var Source # 
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NamedThing (CoAxiom br) Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Core.Coercion.Axiom

NamedThing e => NamedThing (Located e) Source # 
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NamedThing (Located a) => NamedThing (LocatedAn an a) Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Parser.Annotation

NamedThing tv => NamedThing (VarBndr tv flag) Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Types.Var

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getOccName :: VarBndr tv flag -> OccName Source #

getName :: VarBndr tv flag -> Name Source #

NamedThing (HsTyVarBndr flag GhcRn) Source # 
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Defined in GHC.Hs.Type

pprNameUnqualified :: Name -> SDoc Source #

Print the string of Name unqualifiedly directly.

nameStableString :: Name -> String Source #

Get a string representation of a Name that's unique and stable across recompilations. Used for deterministic generation of binds for derived instances. eg. "$aeson_70dylHtv1FFGeai1IoxcQr$Data.Aeson.Types.Internal$String"