ghc-prim-0.5.0.0: GHC primitives

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LanguageHaskell2010

GHC.Types

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Description

GHC type definitions. Use GHC.Exts from the base package instead of importing this module directly.

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Documentation

data Bool #

Constructors

False 
True 

data Char #

The character type Char is an enumeration whose values represent Unicode (or equivalently ISO/IEC 10646) characters (see http://www.unicode.org/ for details). This set extends the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set (the first 256 characters), which is itself an extension of the ASCII character set (the first 128 characters). A character literal in Haskell has type Char.

To convert a Char to or from the corresponding Int value defined by Unicode, use toEnum and fromEnum from the Enum class respectively (or equivalently ord and chr).

Constructors

C# Char# 

data Int #

A fixed-precision integer type with at least the range [-2^29 .. 2^29-1]. The exact range for a given implementation can be determined by using minBound and maxBound from the Bounded class.

Constructors

I# Int# 

data Word #

A Word is an unsigned integral type, with the same size as Int.

Constructors

W# Word# 

data Float #

Single-precision floating point numbers. It is desirable that this type be at least equal in range and precision to the IEEE single-precision type.

Constructors

F# Float# 

data Double #

Double-precision floating point numbers. It is desirable that this type be at least equal in range and precision to the IEEE double-precision type.

Constructors

D# Double# 

data Ordering #

Constructors

LT 
EQ 
GT 

newtype IO a #

A value of type IO a is a computation which, when performed, does some I/O before returning a value of type a.

There is really only one way to "perform" an I/O action: bind it to Main.main in your program. When your program is run, the I/O will be performed. It isn't possible to perform I/O from an arbitrary function, unless that function is itself in the IO monad and called at some point, directly or indirectly, from Main.main.

IO is a monad, so IO actions can be combined using either the do-notation or the >> and >>= operations from the Monad class.

Constructors

IO (State# RealWorld -> (#State# RealWorld, a#)) 

isTrue# :: Int# -> Bool #

Alias for tagToEnum#. Returns True if its parameter is 1# and False if it is 0#.

data SPEC #

SPEC is used by GHC in the SpecConstr pass in order to inform the compiler when to be particularly aggressive. In particular, it tells GHC to specialize regardless of size or the number of specializations. However, not all loops fall into this category.

Libraries can specify this by using SPEC data type to inform which loops should be aggressively specialized.

Constructors

SPEC 
SPEC2 

data Nat #

(Kind) This is the kind of type-level natural numbers.

data Symbol #

(Kind) This is the kind of type-level symbols. Declared here because class IP needs it

class a ~~ b #

Lifted, heterogeneous equality. By lifted, we mean that it can be bogus (deferred type error). By heterogeneous, the two types a and b might have different kinds. Because ~~ can appear unexpectedly in error messages to users who do not care about the difference between heterogeneous equality ~~ and homogeneous equality ~, this is printed as ~ unless -fprint-equality-relations is set.

class Coercible a b #

Coercible is a two-parameter class that has instances for types a and b if the compiler can infer that they have the same representation. This class does not have regular instances; instead they are created on-the-fly during type-checking. Trying to manually declare an instance of Coercible is an error.

Nevertheless one can pretend that the following three kinds of instances exist. First, as a trivial base-case:

instance a a

Furthermore, for every type constructor there is an instance that allows to coerce under the type constructor. For example, let D be a prototypical type constructor (data or newtype) with three type arguments, which have roles nominal, representational resp. phantom. Then there is an instance of the form

instance Coercible b b' => Coercible (D a b c) (D a b' c')

Note that the nominal type arguments are equal, the representational type arguments can differ, but need to have a Coercible instance themself, and the phantom type arguments can be changed arbitrarily.

The third kind of instance exists for every newtype NT = MkNT T and comes in two variants, namely

instance Coercible a T => Coercible a NT
instance Coercible T b => Coercible NT b

This instance is only usable if the constructor MkNT is in scope.

If, as a library author of a type constructor like Set a, you want to prevent a user of your module to write coerce :: Set T -> Set NT, you need to set the role of Set's type parameter to nominal, by writing

type role Set nominal

For more details about this feature, please refer to Safe Coercions by Joachim Breitner, Richard A. Eisenberg, Simon Peyton Jones and Stephanie Weirich.

Since: 4.7.0.0

data TYPE a :: RuntimeRep -> * #

data RuntimeRep #

GHC maintains a property that the kind of all inhabited types (as distinct from type constructors or type-level data) tells us the runtime representation of values of that type. This datatype encodes the choice of runtime value. Note that TYPE is parameterised by RuntimeRep; this is precisely what we mean by the fact that a type's kind encodes the runtime representation.

For boxed values (that is, values that are represented by a pointer), a further distinction is made, between lifted types (that contain ⊥), and unlifted ones (that don't).

Constructors

VecRep VecCount VecElem

a SIMD vector type

PtrRepLifted

lifted; represented by a pointer

PtrRepUnlifted

unlifted; represented by a pointer

VoidRep

erased entirely

IntRep

signed, word-sized value

WordRep

unsigned, word-sized value

Int64Rep

signed, 64-bit value (on 32-bit only)

Word64Rep

unsigned, 64-bit value (on 32-bit only)

AddrRep

A pointer, but not to a Haskell value

FloatRep

a 32-bit floating point number

DoubleRep

a 64-bit floating point number

UnboxedTupleRep

An unboxed tuple; this doesn't specify a concrete rep

type Type = TYPE PtrRepLifted #

The kind of types with values. For example Int :: Type.

type * = TYPE PtrRepLifted #

A backward-compatible (pre-GHC 8.0) synonym for Type

type (★) = TYPE PtrRepLifted #

A unicode backward-compatible (pre-GHC 8.0) synonym for Type

data Constraint #

The kind of constraints, like Show a

data VecCount #

Length of a SIMD vector type

Constructors

Vec2 
Vec4 
Vec8 
Vec16 
Vec32 
Vec64 

Runtime type representation

data Module #

Constructors

Module TrName TrName 

data TrName #

Constructors

TrNameS Addr# 
TrNameD [Char] 

data TyCon #

Constructors

TyCon Word# Word# Module TrName