It compiles to

lift f d = f (d `cast` blah)

which seems fine to me.  Are you unhappy with that?

Simon

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Louis Wasserman
Sent: 09 July 2010 03:30
To: [email protected]
Subject: Casting + eta reduction

Consider

newtype Foo = Foo Int

lift :: (Int -> a) -> Foo -> a
lift f (Foo x) = f x

Now, I'd expect this to compile with -O2 down to something like

lift f = f `cast` (Foo -> a)

but it doesn't.

It seems that GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving assumes that these two things *are* 
equivalent, and it just directly casts the class dictionary.  The implication 
would be that that GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving gives more efficient instances 
than you could *possibly* get if you wrote them by hand, which is very sad.

Louis Wasserman
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
http://profiles.google.com/wasserman.louis
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