Re: [Template-haskell] TupleT type constructor

I've been thinking about it for a while and the special TupleT constructor still seems pretty useful. However, I think it should only be kept if there's a way to guarantee that reify is consistent with the definition of Type (i.e. it should alwa produce TupleT and not "ConT ''(,,,)" and friends ) Furthermore I would find it more appropiate to split Type into Constructors and Types themselves (just like it happens in Data.Typeable and Language.Haskell.Syntax) data Cons = Cons Name | SpecialCons data SpecialCons = Arrow | Tuple Int | List data Type = ForallT [Name] Cxt Type | VarT ConT Cons | AppT Type Type On 11/2/07, Alfonso Acosta wrote:

On 11/2/07, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

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I agree. As in: I would not be opposed to removing it. But we'd just need to be sure there was a convenient way of conjuring up the appropriate data constructor for an n-tuple.

TH.Syntax already provides:

tupleTypeName :: Int -> Name tupleDataName :: Int -> Name

IMHO, that should be enough