This is maybe edging toward haskell-cafe territory, but you can
definitely do this in haskell.
{-# LANGUAGE DataKinds, KindSignatures #-}
data DayType = Sunny | Rainy
data Day (a :: DayType) = Day
sunnyDay :: Day Sunny
sunnyDay = Day
rainyDay :: Day Rainy
rainyDay = Day
-- impossibleDay :: Day ()
-- impossibleDay = Day
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Baa
Hello, List!
For example, I have specialized (right nameis phantom?) type:
data Day a = Day { ... no `a` here } data Sunny data Rainy
joyToday :: Day Sunny -> IO () joyToday day = ...
melancholyToday :: Day Rainy -> IO () melancholyToday day = ...
And I can create (in spite of that it's phantom) some day:
let day1 = Day {...} :: Day Sunny joyToday day1
but no problem to create `Day Int`, `Day Char`, etc which is pointless actually (sure "creator"-function can be exported from the module only, but I'm talking about type-level solution).
I know that constraints (`... =>`) on data types are redundant/removed from the language. And I'm not sure how it's possible to restrict that parameter `a` (I know that it's possible to Java/C++/Perl6 (not sure), some other languages but how to add such restriction in Haskell? IMHO type families can help but I'm not sure how it will look (Sunny, Rainy are "nullary" type, so...).
Is it possible for Haskell too?
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