README.md
1syb: Scrap Your Boilerplate!
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4Scrap Your Boilerplate (SYB) is a library for generic programming in Haskell. It
5is supported since the GHC >= 6.0 implementation of Haskell. Using this
6approach, you can write generic functions such as traversal schemes (e.g.,
7everywhere and everything), as well as generic read, generic show and generic
8equality (i.e., gread, gshow, and geq). This approach is based on just a few
9primitives for type-safe cast and processing constructor applications.
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11It was originally developed by Ralf Lämmel and Simon Peyton Jones. Since then,
12many people have contributed with research relating to SYB or its applications.
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14More information is available on the webpage:
15http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/GenericProgramming/SYB
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18Features
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21* Easy generic programming with combinators
22* GHC can derive Data and Typeable instances for your datatypes
23* Comes with many useful generic functions
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26Requirements
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29* GHC 6.10.1 or later
30* Cabal 1.6 or later
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33Bugs & Support
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36Please report issues or request features at the bug tracker:
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38 https://github.com/dreixel/syb/issues
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40For discussion about the library with the authors, maintainers, and other
41interested persons use the mailing list:
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43 http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/generics
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