This gist demonstrates a trick I came up with which is defining
IsString
for Q (TExp a)
, where a
is lift
-able. This allows you
to write $$("...")
and have the string parsed at compile-time.
On GHC 9, you are able to write $$"..."
instead.
This offers a light-weight way to enforce compile-time constraints. It's
basically OverloadedStrings
with static checks. The inferred return type