[Haskell-cafe] Stacking data types

[Yves Parès]

I meant:

chara = Character 100 $ Armor 40 $ Gun 12 *()*

2011/4/6 Yves Parès <limestrael at gmail.com>

> Hello Café,
>
> I'm trying to get some modular data types.
> The idea that came to me is that I could stack them, for instance :
>
> data Character a = Character { life :: Int,
>                                charaInner :: a }
>
> data Gun a = Gun { firepower :: Int,
>                    gunInner :: a }
>
> data Armor a = Armor { resistance :: Int,
>                        armorInner :: a }
>
> Then a character with a gun and an armor can be build this way:
>
> chara = Character 100 $ Armor 40 $ Gun 12
>
> The idea now is to be able to get some part of the character:
>
> itsGun :: Character ?? -> Gun ??
> itsGun = content
>
> Then content would be a class method:
>
> class Has b a where
>     content :: a -> b
>
> And it would be recursively defined so that:
>
> instance (Has c b, Has b a) => Has c a where
>     content = (content :: b -> c) . (content :: a -> b)
>
> Then itsGun would be more like:
>
> itsGun :: (Has Gun a) => a -> Gun ??
> itsGun = content
>
> But after some juggling with extensions (ScopedTypeVariables,
> UndecidableInstances, IncoherentInstances...) I can't get it working.
>
> Has someone a simpler way to achieve modular types?
>
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