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chak@cse.unsw.edu.au. authored
- This patch implements deriving clauses for data instance declarations (toplevel and associated) - Doesn't support standalone deriving. This could be easily supported, but requires an extension of the syntax of standalone deriving clauses. Björn, fancy adding this? - We cannot derive Typeable. This seems a problem of notation, more than anything else. Why? For a binary vanilla data type "T a b", we would generate an instance Typeable2 T; ie, the instance is for the constructor alone. In the case of a family instance, such as (S [a] (Maybe b)), we simply have no means to denote the associated constuctor. It appears to require type level lambda - something like (/\a b. S [a] (Maybe b). - Derivings are for *individual* family *instances*, not for entire families. Currently, I know of no simple translation of class instances for entire families to System F_C. This actually seems to be similar to implementing open data types à la Löh & Hinze. - This patch only covers data types, not newtypes.
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