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Description

Generically derived enumerations.

This package provides a way to generically obtain every possible value of a type, provided that the generic representation of the type is compatible.

generic-enumeration

This is a library that provides generics-based enumeration of all possible values for a type.

It differs from deriving Enum in that:

  • It supports non-nullary data constructors.
  • It does not try for integer encoding/decoding. It works by providing a list containing every value, and also providing succMay and predMay analogs to Enum's succ and pred
  • It does not allow user-defined instances. Instances either work generically or they don't.

Because of this it is a little less powerful that Enum in some cases, but it is also a lot more safe. There are no partial functions, and disallowing user-defined instances means that not even a human can mess it up.

Use case

I wrote this to solve a particular kind of problem I often have. When I have a type:

data A
  = A1
  | A2
  | A3
  deriving (Enum, Bounded)

And I want to produce a list of all the values:

allAs :: [A]
allAs = [minBound .. maxBound]

This `deriving (Enum, Bounded)` and `[minBound .. maxBound]` dance is a little awkward, and it is not always the case `Enum` or `Bounded` is meaningful for the type except as an implementation detail for getting the full list of values. Worse, this doesn't even work for types with non-nullary constructors. E.g. this won't compile:

data A
  = A1 B
  | A2 C
  | A3
  deriving (Enum, Bounded)

data B
  = B1
  | B2
  deriving (Enum, Bounded)

data C
  = C1
  | C2
  deriving (Enum, Bounded)

On the other hand, this will compile just fine:

data A
  = A1 B
  | A2 C
  | A3
  deriving (Generic)

data B
  = B1
  | B2
  deriving (Generic)

data C
  = C1
  | C2
  deriving (Generic)

allAs :: [A]
allAs = enumeration
  -- where `enumeration` is a function from this package.
  -- Has the value `[A1 B1, A1 B2, A2 C1, A2 C2, A3]`
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