Copyright | (c) The University of Glasgow, CWI 2001--2004 |
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License | BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE) |
Maintainer | [email protected] |
Stability | experimental |
Portability | portable |
Safe Haskell | Trustworthy |
Language | Haskell2010 |
The Typeable
class reifies types to some extent by associating type representations to types. These type representations can be compared, and one can in turn define a type-safe cast operation. To this end, an unsafe cast is guarded by a test for type (representation) equivalence. The module Data.Dynamic uses Typeable for an implementation of dynamics. The module Data.Data uses Typeable and type-safe cast (but not dynamics) to support the "Scrap your boilerplate" style of generic programming.
Since GHC 7.8, Typeable
is poly-kinded. The changes required for this might break some old programs involving Typeable
. More details on this, including how to fix your code, can be found on the PolyTypeable wiki page
The class Typeable
allows a concrete representation of a type to be calculated.
typeRep :: forall proxy a. Typeable a => proxy a -> TypeRep Source
Takes a value of type a
and returns a concrete representation of that type.
Since: 4.7.0.0
data a :~: b where infix 4 Source
Propositional equality. If a :~: b
is inhabited by some terminating value, then the type a
is the same as the type b
. To use this equality in practice, pattern-match on the a :~: b
to get out the Refl
constructor; in the body of the pattern-match, the compiler knows that a ~ b
.
Since: 4.7.0.0
typeOf :: forall a. Typeable a => a -> TypeRep Source
typeOf1 :: forall t a. Typeable t => t a -> TypeRep Source
typeOf2 :: forall t a b. Typeable t => t a b -> TypeRep Source
typeOf3 :: forall t a b c. Typeable t => t a b c -> TypeRep Source
typeOf4 :: forall t a b c d. Typeable t => t a b c d -> TypeRep Source
typeOf5 :: forall t a b c d e. Typeable t => t a b c d e -> TypeRep Source
typeOf6 :: forall t a b c d e f. Typeable t => t a b c d e f -> TypeRep Source
typeOf7 :: forall t a b c d e f g. Typeable t => t a b c d e f g -> TypeRep Source
type Typeable1 a = Typeable a Source
Deprecated: renamed to Typeable
type Typeable2 a = Typeable a Source
Deprecated: renamed to Typeable
type Typeable3 a = Typeable a Source
Deprecated: renamed to Typeable
type Typeable4 a = Typeable a Source
Deprecated: renamed to Typeable
type Typeable5 a = Typeable a Source
Deprecated: renamed to Typeable
type Typeable6 a = Typeable a Source
Deprecated: renamed to Typeable
type Typeable7 a = Typeable a Source
Deprecated: renamed to Typeable
cast :: forall a b. (Typeable a, Typeable b) => a -> Maybe b Source
The type-safe cast operation
eqT :: forall a b. (Typeable a, Typeable b) => Maybe (a :~: b) Source
Extract a witness of equality of two types
Since: 4.7.0.0
gcast :: forall a b c. (Typeable a, Typeable b) => c a -> Maybe (c b) Source
A flexible variation parameterised in a type constructor
gcast1 :: forall c t t' a. (Typeable t, Typeable t') => c (t a) -> Maybe (c (t' a)) Source
Cast over k1 -> k2
gcast2 :: forall c t t' a b. (Typeable t, Typeable t') => c (t a b) -> Maybe (c (t' a b)) Source
Cast over k1 -> k2 -> k3
A concrete, poly-kinded proxy type
Proxy |
Monad (Proxy *) | |
Functor (Proxy *) | |
Applicative (Proxy *) | |
Foldable (Proxy *) | |
Traversable (Proxy *) | |
Generic1 (Proxy *) | |
MonadPlus (Proxy *) | |
Alternative (Proxy *) | |
MonadZip (Proxy *) | |
Show1 (Proxy *) | Since: 4.9.0.0 |
Read1 (Proxy *) | Since: 4.9.0.0 |
Ord1 (Proxy *) | Since: 4.9.0.0 |
Eq1 (Proxy *) | Since: 4.9.0.0 |
Bounded (Proxy k s) | |
Enum (Proxy k s) | |
Eq (Proxy k s) | |
Data t => Data (Proxy * t) | |
Ord (Proxy k s) | |
Read (Proxy k s) | |
Show (Proxy k s) | |
Ix (Proxy k s) | |
Generic (Proxy k t) | |
Semigroup (Proxy k s) | |
Monoid (Proxy k s) | |
type Rep1 (Proxy *) | |
type Rep (Proxy k t) | |
A concrete representation of a (monomorphic) type. TypeRep
supports reasonably efficient equality.
typeRepFingerprint :: TypeRep -> Fingerprint Source
Observe the Fingerprint
of a type representation
Since: 4.8.0.0
rnfTypeRep :: TypeRep -> () Source
Helper to fully evaluate TypeRep
for use as NFData(rnf)
implementation
Since: 4.8.0.0
showsTypeRep :: TypeRep -> ShowS Source
tyConFingerprint :: TyCon -> Fingerprint Source
tyConString :: TyCon -> String Source
Deprecated: renamed to tyConName
; tyConModule
and tyConPackage
are also available.
Observe string encoding of a type representation
tyConPackage :: TyCon -> String Source
tyConModule :: TyCon -> String Source
tyConName :: TyCon -> String Source
rnfTyCon :: TyCon -> () Source
:: String | package name |
-> String | module name |
-> String | the name of the type constructor |
-> TyCon | A unique |
mkTyConApp :: TyCon -> [TypeRep] -> TypeRep Source
Applies a kind-monomorphic type constructor to a sequence of types
mkAppTy :: TypeRep -> TypeRep -> TypeRep Source
Adds a TypeRep argument to a TypeRep.
mkFunTy :: TypeRep -> TypeRep -> TypeRep Source
A special case of mkTyConApp
, which applies the function type constructor to a pair of types.
splitTyConApp :: TypeRep -> (TyCon, [TypeRep]) Source
Splits a type constructor application. Note that if the type constructor is polymorphic, this will not return the kinds that were used. See splitPolyTyConApp
if you need all parts.
funResultTy :: TypeRep -> TypeRep -> Maybe TypeRep Source
Applies a type to a function type. Returns: Just u
if the first argument represents a function of type t -> u
and the second argument represents a function of type t
. Otherwise, returns Nothing
.
typeRepTyCon :: TypeRep -> TyCon Source
Observe the type constructor of a type representation
typeRepArgs :: TypeRep -> [TypeRep] Source
Observe the argument types of a type representation
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