Open kcsongor opened 4 years ago
I found HasConstraints
insufficiently general.
Example: a datatype for the UCS-2 encoding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Coded_Character_Set)
data UCS2
= Nil
| Cons
{ ucs2First :: Word8
, ucs2Second :: Word8
, ucs2Tail :: UCS2
}
I cannot use HasConstraints
(or any generic-lens
combinator, if I were to omit the field labels) to traverse just the ucs2First
field.
I would love to see what a sufficiently general solution would look like.
I removed this feature from
2.0.0.0
because the motivation for it was quite weak and I wasn't happy with the interface. However, if we can find a more consistent story and some motivating examples, it would be great to add it back.