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Generic Programming, Now!

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Datatype-Generic Programming (SSDGP 2006)

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Tired of writing boilerplate code? Tired of repeating essentially the same function definition for lots of different datatypes? Datatype-generic programming promises to end these coding nightmares. In these lecture notes, we present the key abstractions of datatype-generic programming, give several applications, and provide an elegant embedding of generic programming into Haskell. The embedding builds on recent advances in type theory: generalised algebraic datatypes and open datatypes. We hope to convince you that generic programming is useful and that you can use generic programming techniques today!

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Hinze, R., Löh, A. (2007). Generic Programming, Now!. In: Backhouse, R., Gibbons, J., Hinze, R., Jeuring, J. (eds) Datatype-Generic Programming. SSDGP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4719. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76786-2_3

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