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by lambdasquirrel 2197 days ago
You don't. You just do it the dumb old simple way, with some boilerplate here, and some boilerplate there. It may not be elegant, but it's not a blocker. Haskell needs more than this, if it's to find wider adoption.
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Experience shows that it is a blocker. Programmers will resort to virtually anything to avoid that kind of boilerplate - early return, macros, exceptions as a language feature, reflective proxies.