Copyright	(C) 2016 Edward Kmett and Eric Mertens
License	BSD-style (see the file LICENSE)
Maintainer	Edward Kmett <ekmett@gmail.com>
Stability	experimental
Portability	non-portable
Safe Haskell	Trustworthy
Language	Haskell2010

Control.Lens.Internal.Coerce

Description

This module provides a shim around coerce . We need to work around a GHC 7.8-specific Coercible solver bug(s).

Synopsis

coerce :: forall (k :: RuntimeRep ) (a :: TYPE k) (b :: TYPE k). Coercible a b => a -> b
coerce' :: forall a b. Coercible a b => b -> a
(#..) :: ( Profunctor p, Coercible c b) => (b -> c) -> p a b -> p a c

Documentation

coerce :: forall (k :: RuntimeRep ) (a :: TYPE k) (b :: TYPE k). Coercible a b => a -> b Source #

The function coerce allows you to safely convert between values of types that have the same representation with no run-time overhead. In the simplest case you can use it instead of a newtype constructor, to go from the newtype's concrete type to the abstract type. But it also works in more complicated settings, e.g. converting a list of newtypes to a list of concrete types.

This function is runtime-representation polymorphic, but the RuntimeRep type argument is marked as Inferred , meaning that it is not available for visible type application. This means the typechecker will accept coerce @Int @Age 42 .

coerce' :: forall a b. Coercible a b => b -> a Source #

(#..) :: ( Profunctor p, Coercible c b) => (b -> c) -> p a b -> p a c Source #