Hello!

I'm not sure if this is what you're asking for, as it doesn't fit that line of code.  'LitT' is a data constructor not a type constructor.  So instead it'd be

reifyType (LitT ...) = ConE 'LitT ...

If this is what you're looking for, then 'lift' is what you want: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/th-lift/latest/doc/html/Language-Haskell-TH-Lift.html

In particular, I recommend using this package of template haskell orphans, rather than deriving your own: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/th-orphans

Hope that helps!
-Michael



On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Jose A. Lopes <jabolopes@google.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,

Is there a way to automatically reify a type ?
In other words, to do the following:

reifyType (LitT ...) = ConT ''LitT ...

I am using Template Haskell and I want the generated code to have
access to Type datatypes that were available to the Template Haskell
code.

Cheers,
Jose

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