
25 May
2014
25 May
'14
12:42 p.m.
I'm working on a GHC plugin in which I need to programmatically construct a coercion for an associated type, given the type function name and the type argument. For instance, I have the following class:
class Encodable a where type Encode a encode :: a -> Encode a decode :: Encode a -> a
along with a type instance, say `Int -> Bool`. In a GHC plugin, how can I apply a type function to an argument type to get back the resulting type and the associated coercion? (Given the latter, I think the former comes from `coercionKind`). -- Conal