[Haskell-cafe] Is there a way to generate instances from the GHCi REPL?

Good evening, Is there a way with TH to generate instances for a class in GHCi? I want to generate instances for a serialization class. I tried to write some TH to do it, but $(foo) in GHCi’s REPL says that it can only be Q Exp, not Q [Dec]. Sadness. I found qAddTopDecls. I tried to add the class declarations via $(foo >>= qAddTopDecls; stringE "OK!") and it says “Only function, value, and foreign import declarations may be added with addTopDecl". Woe. I could create a file and then load in that file, but loading modules loses all GHCi's state, which would defeat the purpose of using a REPL in the first place. Any hope? Ciao! ​