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deriving-compat: Backports of GHC deriving extensions

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Provides Template Haskell functions that mimic deriving extensions that were introduced or modified in recent versions of GHC. Currently, the following extensions are covered:

  • DeriveFoldable
  • DeriveFunctor
  • DeriveTraversable

The following changes have been backported:

  • In GHC 8.0, DeriveFoldable was changed to allow folding over data types with existential constraints.

  • In GHC 8.0, DeriveFoldable and DeriveTraversable were changed so as not to generate superfluous mempty or pure expressions in generated code. As a result, this allows deriving Traversable instances for datatypes with unlifted argument types.

Note that some recent GHC extensions are not covered by this package:

  • DeriveGeneric, which was introducted in GHC 7.2 for deriving Generic instances, and modified in GHC 7.6 to allow derivation of Generic1 instances. Use Generics.Deriving.TH from generic-deriving to derive Generic(1) using Template Haskell.

  • DeriveLift, which was introduced in GHC 8.0 for deriving Lift instances. Use Language.Haskell.TH.Lift from th-lift to derive Lift using Template Haskell.

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Dependencies base (>=4.3 && <5), containers (>=0.1 && <0.6), ghc-prim, template-haskell (>=2.5 && <2.12) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright (C) 2015-2016 Ryan Scott
Author Ryan Scott
Maintainer Ryan Scott <ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com>
Category Compatibility
Home page https://github.com/haskell-compat/deriving-compat
Bug tracker https://github.com/haskell-compat/deriving-compat/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/haskell-compat/deriving-compat
Uploaded by ryanglscott at 2016-04-21T01:10:42Z
Distributions Arch:0.6.5, Debian:0.5.9, LTSHaskell:0.6.6, NixOS:0.6.6, Stackage:0.6.6
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deriving-compat

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Provides Template Haskell functions that mimic deriving extensions that were introduced or modified in recent versions of GHC. Currently, the following extensions are covered:

  • DeriveFoldable
  • DeriveFunctor
  • DeriveTraversable

The following changes have been backported:

  • In GHC 8.0, DeriveFoldable was changed to allow folding over data types with existential constraints.
  • In GHC 8.0, DeriveFoldable and DeriveTraversable were changed so as not to generate superfluous mempty or pure expressions in generated code. As a result, this allows deriving Traversable instances for datatypes with unlifted argument types.

Note that some recent GHC extensions are not covered by this package:

  • DeriveGeneric, which was introducted in GHC 7.2 for deriving Generic instances, and modified in GHC 7.6 to allow derivation of Generic1 instances. Use Generics.Deriving.TH from generic-deriving to derive Generic(1) using Template Haskell.
  • DeriveLift, which was introduced in GHC 8.0 for deriving Lift instances. Use Language.Haskell.TH.Lift from th-lift to derive Lift using Template Haskell.