Is there any way to ensure, that an expression like the following would be evaluated at compile time?
myList :: [Int]
myList = sort [3,2,0,1]
Is there any way to ensure, that an expression like the following would be evaluated at compile time?
myList :: [Int]
myList = sort [3,2,0,1]
If what you're evaluating is an instance of Lift
, you can evaluate it at compile time using TemplateHaskell
:
{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
module Sort where
import Data.List
import Language.Haskell.TH.Syntax
myList :: [Int]
myList = $(lift (sort [3,2,0,1] :: [Int]))
If you want, you can check what it has compiled to with -ddump-splices
:
$ ghc -ddump-splices sort
[1 of 1] Compiling Sort ( sort.hs, sort.o )
sort.hs:9:12-41: Splicing expression
lift (sort [3, 2, 0, 1] :: [Int]) ======> [0, 1, 2, 3]