Difference between revisions of "Talk:GHC.Generics"

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Is that a typo (copied from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/generic-programming.html, or is there a reason for the difference?
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Is that a typo (copied from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/generic-programming.html), or is there a reason for the difference?
   
 
-- | Sums: encode choice between constructors
 
-- | Sums: encode choice between constructors

Revision as of 04:00, 3 March 2012

Why does the definition of (:+:) use the pipe character "|", but the definition of (:*:) uses the ":*:" operator?


Is that a typo (copied from http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/generic-programming.html), or is there a reason for the difference?

-- | Sums: encode choice between constructors
infixr 5 :+:
data (:+:) f g p = L1 (f p) | R1 (g p)
-- | Products: encode multiple arguments to constructors
infixr 6 :*:
data (:*:) f g p = f p :*: g p