[Haskell-cafe] creating a type based on a string

Andrew U. Frank frank22 at geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Sep 2 16:31:50 EDT 2010


I have a user input (string) and need to select one of two types.
depending what the input is. is this possible? 

data A
data B 

data X n = X String

op :: String -> X n
op "a" = X "a" :: X A
op "b" = X "b" :: X B

this does obviously not compile. is there a way to achieve that the type
X A is produced when the input is "a" and X B when the input is "b"?

thank you for help!
andrew




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