Proposal: add Data.Data instances for Foreign.C.Types

[José Pedro Magalhães]

Hi there,

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently was wanting to use SYB for an AST datatype which includes
> constants like CDouble/CFloat.  Currently Data.Data exports Int8...Int64
> and Word instances, but no instances for Foreign.C.Types:
>
>
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Data.html
>
> Is there any reason these instances should not be exported by Data.Data?
>

Probably just because no one needed them before. I'm fine with adding them,
if no one has anything against. Will you provide the patch?


Thanks,
Pedro
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