I'm implementing Template Haskell support for injective type families and I'm struggling to understand DsMeta module. It seems that all functions in that module delegate their calls to functions in Language.Haskell.TH.Lib via wired-in names and the `DsMeta.rep2` function. I'm puzzled by this design and I'd appreciate if someone could explain why things are done this way. Take this function example:
repPlainTV :: Core TH.Name -> DsM (Core TH.TyVarBndr) repPlainTV (MkC nm) = rep2 plainTVName [nm] where `plainTvName` is a name of `Language.Haskell.TH.Lib.plainTV`: plainTV :: Name -> TyVarBndr plainTV = PlainTV Why not implement repPlainTV like this: ? repPlainTV :: Core TH.Name -> DsM (Core TH.TyVarBndr) repPlainTV (MkC nm) = return $ MkC (TH.PlainTV nm) Janek _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
