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authorOleg Grenrus <oleg.grenrus@iki.fi>2022-11-29 19:34:11 +0200
committerMarge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org>2022-12-11 12:26:17 -0500
commitb3e98a926ac05b8e59e3b31b74b019d4ecb462f6 (patch)
tree31dca72717b5668255cc546beead951a83b03c2b
parentc658c580863fc23c29f183db3f52a2004756d84c (diff)
downloadhaskell-b3e98a926ac05b8e59e3b31b74b019d4ecb462f6.tar.gz
Add heqT, a kind-heterogeneous variant of heq
CLC proposal https://github.com/haskell/core-libraries-committee/issues/99
-rw-r--r--libraries/base/Data/Typeable.hs12
-rw-r--r--libraries/base/changelog.md1
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/base/Data/Typeable.hs b/libraries/base/Data/Typeable.hs
index 2ac9f9ade0..6885152308 100644
--- a/libraries/base/Data/Typeable.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/Data/Typeable.hs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
{-# LANGUAGE PolyKinds #-}
{-# LANGUAGE ScopedTypeVariables #-}
{-# LANGUAGE Trustworthy #-}
+{-# LANGUAGE TypeApplications #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeOperators #-}
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ module Data.Typeable
-- * Type-safe cast
, cast
, eqT
+ , heqT
, gcast -- a generalisation of cast
-- * Generalized casts for higher-order kinds
@@ -135,8 +137,14 @@ cast x
-- @since 4.7.0.0
eqT :: forall a b. (Typeable a, Typeable b) => Maybe (a :~: b)
eqT
- | Just HRefl <- ta `I.eqTypeRep` tb = Just Refl
- | otherwise = Nothing
+ | Just HRefl <- heqT @a @b = Just Refl
+ | otherwise = Nothing
+
+-- | Extract a witness of heterogeneous equality of two types
+--
+-- @since 4.18.0.0
+heqT :: forall a b. (Typeable a, Typeable b) => Maybe (a :~~: b)
+heqT = ta `I.eqTypeRep` tb
where
ta = I.typeRep :: I.TypeRep a
tb = I.typeRep :: I.TypeRep b
diff --git a/libraries/base/changelog.md b/libraries/base/changelog.md
index ee712fe27c..01dd9fe894 100644
--- a/libraries/base/changelog.md
+++ b/libraries/base/changelog.md
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
of individually allocated pointers as well as freeing each one of them when
freeing a `Pool`. (#14762) (#18338)
* `Type.Reflection.Unsafe` is now marked as unsafe.
+ * Add `Data.Typeable.heqT`, a kind-heterogeneous version of `Data.Typeable.eqT`.
## 4.17.0.0 *August 2022*