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Generic Haskell, Specifically

Dave Clarke, Andres Löh

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Generic Haskell exploits the promising new incarnation of generic programming due to Hinze. Apart from extending the programming language Haskell, Hinze-style polytypism offers a simple approach to defining generic functions which are applicable to types of all kinds. Here we explore a number of simple but significant extensions to Hinze’s ideas which make generic programming both more expressive and easier to use. We illustrate our ideas with examples.

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Generic Haskell exploits the promising new incarnation of generic programming due to Hinze. Apart from extending the programming language Haskell, Hinze-style polytypism offers a simple approach to defining generic functions which are applicable to types of all kinds. Here we explore a number of simple but significant extensions to Hinze’s ideas which make generic programming both more expressive and easier to use. We illustrate our ideas with examples.

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Generic Haskell exploits the promising new incarnation of generic programming due to Hinze. Apart from extending the programming language Haskell, Hinze-style polytypism offers a simple approach to defining generic functions which are applicable to types of all kinds. Here we explore a number of simple but significant extensions to Hinze’s ideas which make generic programming both more expressive and easier to use. We illustrate our ideas with examples.

Key concepts: Haskell, Computer science, Programming language, Mathematics, Functional programming

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