newtype Questions

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I am trying to use the newtype pattern to wrap a pre-existing type. That inner type has a modify method which lets us work with a borrowed mutable value in a callback: struct Val; struct Inner(Va...
Genaro asked 1/1, 2019 at 22:59

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What is the difference when I write this? data Book = Book Int Int versus newtype Book = Book (Int, Int) -- "Book Int Int" is syntactically invalid
Councilwoman asked 4/5, 2011 at 20:50

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I have a program which traverses an expression tree that does algebra on probability distributions, either sampling or computing the resulting distribution. I have two implementations computing the...

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In Haskell, there's two ways of providing an alias for types: type and newtype. type provides a type synonym, which means the synonym is regarded by the type checker as exactly the same as the orig...
Dermatitis asked 27/4, 2015 at 11:18

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I want to create a pair of newtypes Tag(str) and TagBuf(String), analogous to how Path and PathBuf wrap OsStr and OsString. My end goal is to have a map keyed by TagBuf and to be able to index into...
Itu asked 23/11, 2020 at 22:31

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In Chapter 8 of thinking with types I learned that the fmap Sum part of fastSum :: [Int] -> Int fastSum = getSum . mconcat . fmap Sum has a O(n) runtime cost, whereas using coerce instead avoid...
Oscillatory asked 4/10, 2020 at 8:59

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I am trying to define an instance: newtype Join a = Join { getJoin :: a -> Bool } deriving Generic instance Monoid (Join a) where f <> g = ??? mempty = ??? The goal is that the functi...
Ghat asked 19/7, 2020 at 16:22

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Since learning Rust, I've become a fan of the newtype idiom which I gather Rust borrowed from Haskell. A newtype is a distinct type based on a standard type which ensures that function parame...
Sheepfold asked 26/6, 2020 at 7:43

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Related question - Is it safe to derive MonadThrow, MonadCatch, MonadBaseControl, MonadUnliftIO, etc? - where I had enabled, both - DeriveAnyClass and GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving to get the code to...
Corr asked 25/7, 2019 at 9:34

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I have the following Haskell code, that compiles perfectly: import Control.Monad.Reader (Reader (..)) import Data.Coerce (Coercible, coerce) data Flow i o = Flow (i -> o) (o -> i) coerceFl...
Citrate asked 16/5, 2020 at 16:42

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I'm trying to create my own data type, which will be part of Monad class, but newtype Container a = Container a deriving Monad gives me this error: * Can't make a derived instance of `Monad Co...
Chasteen asked 28/2, 2020 at 18:32

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I have a dozen of newtypes like this: newtype MyBool = MyBool Bool newtype MyInt = MyInt Int I want to reuse existing instances: instance MArray IOUArray Int IO where ... instance MArray (STUAr...
Fishbolt asked 1/1, 2020 at 5:42

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I would like to know if it is bad form to do something like this: data Alignment = LeftAl | CenterAl | RightAl type Delimiter = Char type Width = Int setW :: Width -> Alignment -> Del...
Laburnum asked 16/7, 2019 at 16:48

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Why does the WrappedMonad and WrappedArrow types exist? Is it because Monads were not Applicative? Given that WrappedArrow exists, should the instance Arrow a => Applicative (Arrow a b) sim...
Ludeman asked 12/2, 2015 at 1:52

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I am learning Arrow following the tutorial programming with arrows. I've typed the following code according to the paper except that the SF is defined by data, not by newtype as in the paper (actua...
Possession asked 1/4, 2019 at 5:40

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The Haskell programming language has a concept of newtypes: If I write newtype Foo = Foo (Bar), then a new type Foo is created that is isomorphic to Bar, i.e. there are bijective conversions betwee...

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How does this code data D = D { _d :: ![P] } -- Note the strictness annotation! Compare to this newtype D = D { _d :: [P] } An answer to a related question says: the main difference betwee...
Buschi asked 20/11, 2018 at 10:42

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Let's say I have the following newtype: newtype Foo = Foo Integer deriving (Eq, Show) Is there a concise way to add two Foo's: (Foo 10) + (Foo 5) == Foo 15 or get the max: max (Foo 10) (Foo 5)...
Pali asked 6/10, 2014 at 2:35

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With Haskell 98 decls, the whole datatype must be either newtype or data. But data families can have a mix of newtype instance, data instance. Does that mean that being newtype is a property of the...
Sensorium asked 20/9, 2018 at 4:4

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A pattern that presents itself the more often the more type safety is being introduced via newtype is to project a value (or several values) to a newtype wrapper, do some operations, and then retra...
Blistery asked 19/8, 2018 at 6:47

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I wanted a type for timestamped values that had an appropriate Semigroup instance (latest value wins). It turns out that Max (Arg UTCTime a) does exactly what I want, but is really awkward to work ...
Sheer asked 5/5, 2018 at 23:58

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I'm trying to create a pattern synonym for a newtype with an empty map. {-# Language PatternSynonyms #-} import qualified Data.Map as Map newtype StoreEnv = StoreEnv (Map.Map Int String) derivi...
Beebeebe asked 15/4, 2018 at 18:48

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I've seen in some docs and tutorials: runReader runState runState What is the abstract concept that this pattern covers? What does running something mean in Haskell? Side question, is there a ...
Stupor asked 29/12, 2017 at 5:27

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I have following type definition: newtype Flip f a b = Flip (f b a) deriving (Eq, Show) Does the Flip data constructor has one or three arguments? Consinder following implementation: data K...
Sardella asked 4/7, 2017 at 14:4

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I'm going over continuations and I've come across two different approaches to structuring continuation types: newtype C r a = C {runC :: (a -> r) -> r} exampleFunction :: String -> C Boo...
Vang asked 17/2, 2017 at 8:39

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