Description: | A library to support the definition of generic functions. Datatypes are viewed
in a uniform, structured way: the choice between constructors is represented
using an n-ary sum, and the arguments of each constructor are represented using
an n-ary product.
The module "Generics.SOP" is the main module of this library and contains more
detailed documentation.
Since version 0.4.0.0, this package is now based on
'<https://hackage.haskell.org/package/sop-core sop-core>'. The core package
contains all the functionality of n-ary sums and products, whereas this package
provides the datatype-generic programming support on top.
Examples of using this library are provided by the following packages:
* '<https://hackage.haskell.org/package/basic-sop basic-sop>' basic examples,
* '<https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pretty-sop pretty-sop>' generic pretty
printing,
* '<https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-sop lens-sop>' generically
computed lenses,
* '<https://hackage.haskell.org/package/json-sop json-sop>' generic JSON
conversions.
A detailed description of the ideas behind this library is provided by the
paper:
* Edsko de Vries and Andres Löh.
<http://www.andres-loeh.de/TrueSumsOfProducts True Sums of Products>.
Workshop on Generic Programming (WGP) 2014. |