Data.Vector.Unboxed.Deriving

vector-th-unbox-0.2.2: Deriver for Data.Vector.Unboxed using Template Haskell

Copyright | © 2012−2015 Liyang HU
License | BSD3
Maintainer | vector-th-unbox@liyang.hu
Stability | experimental
Portability | non-portable
Safe Haskell | Trustworthy
Language | Haskell2010

Data.Vector.Unboxed.Deriving

Description

Synopsis

- derivingUnbox :: String -> TypeQ -> ExpQ -> ExpQ -> DecsQ

# Documentation

Writing `Unbox` instances for new data types is tedious and formulaic. More often than not, there is a straightforward mapping of the new type onto some existing one already imbued with an `Unbox` instance. The example from the `vector` package represents `Complex a` as pairs `(a, a)`. Using `derivingUnbox`, we can define the same instances much more succinctly:

    derivingUnbox "Complex"
        [t| ∀ a. (Unbox a) ⇒ Complex a → (a, a) |]
        [| \ (r :+ i) → (r, i) |]
        [| \ (r, i) → r :+ i |]

Requires the `MultiParamTypeClasses`, `TemplateHaskell`, `TypeFamilies` and probably the `FlexibleInstances` `LANGUAGE` extensions. Note that GHC 7.4 (but not earlier nor later) needs the `Vector` and `MVector` class method names to be in scope in order to define the appropriate instances:

    #if 910 == 704
    import qualified Data.Vector.Generic
    import qualified Data.Vector.Generic.Mutable
    #endif

Consult the sanity test for a working example.

derivingUnbox #

Arguments

:: String | Unique constructor suffix for the MVector and Vector data families
-> TypeQ | Quotation of the form `[t| ctxt ⇒ src → rep |]`
-> ExpQ | Quotation of an expression of type `src → rep`
-> ExpQ | Quotation of an expression of type `rep → src`
-> DecsQ | Declarations to be spliced for the derived Unbox instance

Let's consider a more complex example: suppose we want an `Unbox` instance for `Maybe a`. We could encode this using the pair `(Bool, a)`, with the boolean indicating whether we have `Nothing` or `Just` something. This encoding requires a dummy value in the `Nothing` case, necessitating an additional Default constraint. Thus:

    derivingUnbox "Maybe"
        [t| ∀ a. (Default a, Unbox a) ⇒ Maybe a → (Bool, a) |]
        [| maybe (False, def) (\ x → (True, x)) |]
        [| \ (b, x) → if b then Just x else Nothing |]