Cafe,

There is a group of GHC extensions and complementary classes

to make writing Haskell code a bit sweeter such as:

 - {} - Num (fromIntegral)

 - OverloadedStrings - IsString

 - OverloadedLists - IsList

So I have an inductive question - why there is no OverloadedTuples?

I haven't found a discussion thread about this topic.

I could imagine following tuple syntax interpretation:

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedTuples #-}

data Foo = FooA Int String | FooB String Foo deriving (Show, Eq, IsTuple)

mkFoo :: Foo

mkFoo = (1, "hello")

mkFoo2 :: Foo

mkFoo = ("abc", (1, "hello"))

Sometimes expected type name is known without data constructor.

So such expression is more concise.

--

Best regards,
Daniil Iaitskov
 

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