On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, rocon...@theorem.ca wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Dan Burton wrote:

Following the announcement of lens-family, I'm pleased to announce lens-family-th 0.1.0.0, a Template Haskell library supplying macros to generate
lens-family lenses for fields of data types declared with record syntax.

Be warned that currently, type signatures are *not* generated alongside the lens definitions. Type inference should correctly determine the type of the generated lenses, but I have structured the library code so that in the future, type signatures can also be generated. Patches welcome!

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-family-th

I cannot help but wonder if it is better to *not* generate type signatures (or at least have an option not to).

In data-accessor-template we generate type signatures, also because it avoids warnings for missing type signatures. However it needed some fine-tuning before it worked in all cases.

At the moment one can write:

import Lens.Family2.Stock
import Lens.Family2.TH

data Foo a = Foo { _bar :: Int, _baz :: a }
           deriving (Show, Read, Eq, Ord)
$(mkLenses ''Foo)

-- | My documentation for the 'bar' lens.
bar :: Lens (Foo a) Int

-- | My documentation for the 'baz' lens.
baz :: LensFamily (Foo a) (Foo a') a a'

I don't know if it is possible to add haddock to functions whose type signatures are generated by template haskell.

Could the documentation be an argument of mkLenses?

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