Language.Haskell.TH.Lift

Derive Lift instances for many datatypes.

Obtain Info values through a custom reification function. This is useful when generating instances for datatypes that have not yet been declared.

Generates a lambda expresson which behaves like lift (without requiring a Lift instance). Example:

newtype Fix f = In { out :: f (Fix f) }

instance Lift (f (Fix f)) => Lift (Fix f) where
  lift = $(makeLift ''Fix)

This can be useful when deriveLift is not clever enough to infer the correct instance context, such as in the example above.

Like makeLift, but using a custom reification function.

A Lift instance can have any of its values turned into a Template Haskell expression. This is needed when a value used within a Template Haskell quotation is bound outside the Oxford brackets ([| ... |] or [|| ... ||]) but not at the top level. As an example:

add1 :: Int -> Code Q Int
add1 x = [|| x + 1 ||]

Template Haskell has no way of knowing what value x will take on at splice-time, so it requires the type of x to be an instance of Lift.

A Lift instance must satisfy $(lift x) ≡ x and $$(liftTyped x) ≡ x for all x, where $(...) and $$(...) are Template Haskell splices. It is additionally expected that lift x ≡ unTypeCode (liftTyped x).

Lift instances can be derived automatically by use of the -XDeriveLift GHC language extension:

{-# LANGUAGE DeriveLift #-}
module Foo where

import Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax

data Bar a = Bar1 a (Bar a) | Bar2 String
  deriving Lift

Representation-polymorphic since template-haskell-2.16.0.0.