Proxy, new Typeable, and type-level equality

[José Pedro Magalhães]

Hi all,

I've started working on implementing what's described on that wikipage to a
base library
branch: https://github.com/ghc/packages-base/tree/data-proxy

Some code (and lots of documentation) is still missing; feel free to help!


Cheers,
Pedro

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>wrote:

> I have updated the wiki page at
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TypeLevelReasoning
> with these ideas. If you have further thoughts on all of this, please
> update that page and send an email out so we know to look at the changes!
>
> My timeline for implementing all of this (not hard, but it needs to be
> done) is around the end of the month.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
> On Apr 4, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Edward A Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Note the eq lib and the type-eq/(:~:) GADT-based approach are
> interchangeable.
> >
> > You can upgrade a Leibnizian equality to a type equality by applying the
> Leibnizian substitution to an a :~: a.
> >
> > lens also has a notion of an Equality family at the bottom of the type
> semilattice for lens-like constructions, which is effectively a naked
> Leibnizian equality sans newtype wrapper.
> >
> > The only reason eq exists is to showcase this approach, but in practice
> I recommend just using the GADT, modulo mutterings about the name. :)
> >
> > That said those lowerings are particularly useful, if subtle -- Oleg
> wrote the first version of them, which I simplified to the form in that lib
> and they provide functionality that is classically not derivable for
> Leibnizian equality.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Apr 4, 2013, at 3:01 AM, Erik Hesselink <hesselink at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
> >>> Comments? Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Edward Kmett 'eq' library uses a different definition of equality, but
> >> can also be an inspiration for useful functions. Particularly, it
> >> includes:
> >>
> >> lower :: (f a :~: f b) -> a :~: b
> >>
> >> Another question is where all this is going to live? In a separate
> >> library? Or in base? And should it really be in a GHC namespace? The
> >> functionality is not bound to GHC. Perhaps something in data would be
> >> more appropriate.
> >>
> >> Erik
> >>
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