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authorRyan Scott <ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com>2018-06-04 21:20:02 -0400
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2018-06-04 22:37:19 -0400
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Introduce DerivingVia
This implements the `DerivingVia` proposal put forth in https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/120. This introduces the `DerivingVia` deriving strategy. This is a generalization of `GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving` that permits the user to specify the type to `coerce` from. The major change in this patch is the introduction of the `ViaStrategy` constructor to `DerivStrategy`, which takes a type as a field. As a result, `DerivStrategy` is no longer a simple enumeration type, but rather something that must be renamed and typechecked. The process by which this is done is explained more thoroughly in section 3 of this paper ( https://www.kosmikus.org/DerivingVia/deriving-via-paper.pdf ), although I have inlined the relevant parts into Notes where possible. There are some knock-on changes as well. I took the opportunity to do some refactoring of code in `TcDeriv`, especially the `mkNewTypeEqn` function, since it was bundling all of the logic for (1) deriving instances for newtypes and (2) `GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving` into one huge broth. `DerivingVia` reuses much of part (2), so that was factored out as much as possible. Bumps the Haddock submodule. Test Plan: ./validate Reviewers: simonpj, bgamari, goldfire, alanz Subscribers: alanz, goldfire, rwbarton, thomie, mpickering, carter GHC Trac Issues: #15178 Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4684
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