Typeable and Data in HaskellData.Typeable and Data.Data are rather mysterious. Starting out as a Haskell newbie you see them once in a while and wonder what use they are. Their Haddock pages are pretty opaque and scary in places. Here’s a quick rundown I thought I’d write to get people up to speed nice and quick so that they can start using it.1 It’s really rather beautiful as a way to do generic programming in Haskell. The
