Most academic papers do use the eval example, but it is a practical example. This use of GADTs is nice for embedded languages. For example, Accelerate uses a supercharged version of it to catch as many errors as possible during Haskell host program compile-time (as opposed to Accelerate compile time, which is Haskell runtime).

Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com>:

Friends

I’m giving a series of five lectures at the Laser Summer School (2-8 Sept), on “Adventures with types in Haskell”. My plan is:
1.   Type classes
2.   Type families [examples including Repa type tags]
3.   GADTs
4.   Kind polymorphism
5.   System FC and deferred type errors

This message is to invite you to send me your favourite example of using a GADT to get the job done. Ideally I’d like to use examples that are (a) realistic, drawn from practice (b) compelling and (c) easy to present without a lot of background. Most academic papers only have rather limited examples, usually eval :: Term t -> t, but I know that GADTs are widely used in practice.

Any ideas from your experience, satisfying (a-c)? If so, and you can spare the time, do send me a short write-up. Copy the list, so that we can all benefit.

Many thanks

Simon
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