On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <[email protected]>wrote:
> What I would like to see is something like:**** > > HsApp (HsApp (HsApp (HsVar "foldl'") (HsVar "+")) (HsLit 0)) (HsVar "xs")* > *** > > We could derive ‘Show’ on everything but that would generate a LOT of new > code, that would seldom be used. Also ‘Show’ doesn’t pretty-print so the > result would be illegible. **** > > ** > If plugins could be used before the conversion to Core, such a plugin might be a tidy way to workaround the issue of bloating GHC's binary size with all that Show code. This previous email thread http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2012-March/022076.html seems relevant, and Marlow's comment there makes it sound like a pretty easy change.
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