So, in Haskell, it's really easy to do this:
data Foo = Bar | Baz
deriving (Read, Show)
This is great, but I'd like to be able to pass some data as a string from Haskell to the Elm language. The languages are similar enough that, if I had a Haskell implementation of Read, I could easily convert it to Elm by hand.
The problem is, when I use deriving, the function is automatically generated, but I can't actually see what it does.
I'm wondering, is there a way to automatically generate the code for parsing and showing using Read and Show, so that I could actually see the code itself?
You can use the the
-ddump-deriv
GHC option to see the code for derived instances: