base-4.11.0.0: Basic libraries

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Type.Reflection.Unsafe

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Description

The representations of the types TyCon and TypeRep, and the function mkTyCon which is used by derived instances of Typeable to construct TyCons.

Be warned, these functions can be used to construct ill-kinded type representations.

Synopsis

Type representations

data TypeRep (a :: k) Source #

A concrete representation of a (monomorphic) type. TypeRep supports reasonably efficient equality.

Instances
TestEquality (TypeRep :: k -> *) Source # 
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Methods

testEquality :: TypeRep a -> TypeRep b -> Maybe (a :~: b) Source #

Eq (TypeRep a) Source #

Since: 2.1

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Methods

(==) :: TypeRep a -> TypeRep a -> Bool Source #

(/=) :: TypeRep a -> TypeRep a -> Bool Source #

Ord (TypeRep a) Source #

Since: 4.4.0.0

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Show (TypeRep a) Source # 
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mkTrApp :: forall k1 k2 (a :: k1 -> k2) (b :: k1). TypeRep (a :: k1 -> k2) -> TypeRep (b :: k1) -> TypeRep (a b) Source #

Construct a representation for a type application.

mkTyCon Source #

Arguments

:: String

package name

-> String

module name

-> String

the name of the type constructor

-> Int

number of kind variables

-> KindRep

kind representation

-> TyCon

A unique TyCon object Used when the strings are dynamically allocated, eg from binary deserialisation

Exquisitely unsafe.

typeRepFingerprint :: TypeRep a -> Fingerprint Source #

Observe the Fingerprint of a type representation

Since: 4.8.0.0

Kind representations

data KindRep Source #

The representation produced by GHC for conjuring up the kind of a TypeRep. See Note [Representing TyCon kinds: KindRep] in TcTypeable.

Bundled Patterns

pattern KindRepTypeLit :: TypeLitSort -> String -> KindRep 
Instances
Show KindRep Source # 
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Type constructors

data TyCon Source #

Instances
Eq TyCon 
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Methods

(==) :: TyCon -> TyCon -> Bool Source #

(/=) :: TyCon -> TyCon -> Bool Source #

Ord TyCon 
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Show TyCon Source #

Since: 2.1

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mkTrCon :: forall k (a :: k). TyCon -> [SomeTypeRep] -> TypeRep a Source #

Construct a representation for a type constructor applied at a monomorphic kind.

Note that this is unsafe as it allows you to construct ill-kinded types.