Won't show include all the components? I wanted to include only the type name.

I could probably get away with bundling all the contents into the error string but it would be nice to know if there is a standard way to get type names like this.

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 2:33 PM, fa-ml <fa-ml@ariis.it> wrote:

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 02:04:40PM +0000, Gareth Morgan wrote:
> I have a sum type, when the input is type A I want to process it, when it
> is type B I want to return MyError "Expected type A but actually got type
> B". However I also have C,D,E,F, etc which should also return similar
> errors so don't want to hardcode this string.

Would pattern matching be enough for you? i.e. (very crude):

data Test = Alfa | Beta | Gamma deriving (Show)

testAlfa Alfa = undefined -- put your process function here
testAlfa o = error $ "wasn't expecting " ++ show o

main = testAlfa Beta

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