#7631: Allow to differentiate between newtypes and datatypes -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: Feuerbach | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Component: libraries (other) Version: 7.6.1 | Keywords: generics Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Failure: None/Unknown | Blockedby: Blocking: | Related: -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- When writing a generic instance, I would like to be able to tell whether the type under consideration has been declared using newtype or data. For example, in SmallCheck we generate values of certain "depth". It is natural to treat datatype constructors as increasing the depth of the constructed value, and newtype constructors as preserving the depth. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7631 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler