effectful-plugin: A GHC plugin for improving disambiguation of effects.

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Instruct GHC to do a better job with disambiguation of effects.

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Dependencies base (>=4.13 && <5), containers (>=0.5), effectful-core (>=1.0.0.0 && <3.0.0.0), ghc (>=8.6 && <9.7), ghc-tcplugins-extra (>=0.3 && <0.5) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Andrzej Rybczak
Maintainer andrzej@rybczak.net
Category Control
Bug tracker https://github.com/haskell-effectful/effectful/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/haskell-effectful/effectful.git
Uploaded by arybczak at 2023-01-22T22:42:13Z
Distributions LTSHaskell:1.1.0.2, NixOS:1.1.0.2, Stackage:1.1.0.2
Reverse Dependencies 1 direct, 0 indirect [details]
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Readme for effectful-plugin-1.1.0.0

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effectful-plugin

A GHC plugin for improving disambiguation of effects.

Usage

To enable the plugin, add the following GHC option to your project file:

ghc-options: -fplugin=Effectful.Plugin

What it does

The following code:

action :: (State Int :> es, State String :> es) => Eff es ()
action = do
  x <- get
  put (x + 1)

will not compile out of the box because GHC doesn't know that you meant to get an Int since the function + as well as the literal 1 are polymorphic. You have to write:

action :: (State Int :> es, State String :> es) => Eff es ()
action = do
  x <- get @Int
  put (x + 1)

Which is slightly annoying. This plugin tells GHC extra information so code like this can type-check without having to spell types to the compiler.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Xy Ren for her work on cleff-plugin effectful-plugin is based on.