Copyright | (c) The University of Glasgow 2001 |
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License | BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE) |
Maintainer | libraries@haskell.org |
Stability | experimental |
Portability | portable |
Safe Haskell | Trustworthy |
Language | Haskell2010 |
The Dynamic interface provides basic support for dynamic types.
Operations for injecting values of arbitrary type into a dynamically typed value, Dynamic, are provided, together with operations for converting dynamic values into a concrete (monomorphic) type.
The Dynamic
type
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
).
Show
ing a value of type Dynamic
returns a pretty-printed representation
of the object's type; useful for debugging.
Converting to and from Dynamic
toDyn :: Typeable a => a -> Dynamic Source #
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)
:: Typeable a | |
=> Dynamic | the dynamically-typed object |
-> a | a default value |
-> a | returns: the value of the first argument, if it has the correct type, otherwise the value of the second argument. |
Converts a Dynamic
object back into an ordinary Haskell value of
the correct type. See also fromDynamic
.
Applying functions of dynamic type
dynTypeRep :: Dynamic -> SomeTypeRep Source #