[mercury-users] type class constrain problem

[Andrea Bini]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Becket" <rafe at csse.unimelb.edu.au>
To: <mercury-users at csse.unimelb.edu.au>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 1:31 AM
Subject: Re: [mercury-users] type class constrain problem


> Hi Andrea,
>
> Andrea Bini, Friday,  3 August 2007:
> > hi all!
> > suppose you have two modules, one declaring:
> >
CUT
> > :- pred t2_to_t1(t2::in, t1::out) is semidet.
> > t2_to_t1(T2,T1) :-
> >   type_ctor_and_args(type_of(T2), _, [X_desc]),
> >   has_type(X, X_desc),
> >   T1 = 'new t1'(X).
>
> There are a few problems here, the main one being that has_type only uses
> its first argument's type info, not the argument itself.  X has mode
> `unused' here (which means `free >> free'), hence X does not become
> ground as required.

Ops... I've forgetten to construct the appropriate term...
just an oversight...

>
> > my question is: I need to write a predicate, that does the same thing of
> > t2_to_t1, in the first module but specific to the particular t2 keeping
it
> > updated if declarations are changed, like this:
> >
> > :- pred t2_to_t1(t2::in, t1::out) is det.
> > t2_to_t1(fooc(X), 'new t1'(X)).
> > t2_to_t1(barc(X), 'new t1'(X)).
> >
> > or there is a way to modify the generic t2_to_t1 and let it works?
>
> The generic version requires dynamic type class casts, which has been on
> our wish list for quite a while now.  Unfortunately it's an extension that
> requires non-trivial changes to our run time type information
> implementation and we haven't got around to completing those changes.
>
> Can you live with the less generic version for now?  It's preferable in
> many ways because the compiler can verify your code, which it's unlikely
> to be able to do in the generic implementation.

yes I can survive with it :)
thanks a lot for your answer!

Andrea Bini

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