[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] [ANN] GenCheck - a generalized property-based testing framework

[Jacques Carette]

On 20/06/2012 6:56 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> QuickCheck is Haskell-98 and thus is very portable. I see that 
> GenCheck needs some more extensions - type families, multi-parameter 
> type classes, what else?

FlexibleContexts and FlexibleInstances.

However, I am fairly sure that the multi-parameter type classes are not 
in fact needed.  Certainly a branch of the current implementation could 
easily be done that removes these without harming the functionality 
currently implemented, although it might harm some of the 
extensibility.  And I think most of the uses of 
FlexibleContexts/Instances are tied to these MPTCs.

The one use of type families is to implement a view or, if you prefer, 
the 'get' part of a lens.  With type families, this is extremely 
elegant.  If portability is really important, this too could probably be 
branched into an implementation that does this otherwise.

I am actively working on refactoring the LabelledPartition MPTC into 
simpler pieces, but you'll have to wait until gencheck-0.2 for that.

Jacques