Mention GHC generics support in documentation #6
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phadej
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Feb 4, 2019
| -- exception will be thrown. | ||
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| -- You can also derive 'FromRow' for your data type using GHC generics, like | ||
| -- this: |
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should one mention Product type? Should we add an instance with TypeError for :+:?
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@phadej: I think adding new instances is outside of the scope for this pull request (which is just to mention that it even exists)
However, I can update the documentation to mention that it only works for product types and does not support sum types
... as suggested by @phadej
phadej
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Feb 6, 2019
| -- deriving ('GHC.Generics.Generic', 'FromRow') | ||
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| -- Note that this only works for product types (i.e. records) and does not |
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Should i.e. be e.g. because data Foo = Foo Int String is a product type, but is not a record.
... as suggested by @phadej
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