On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 02:59:03PM +0200, Alan & Kim Zimmerman wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:59:03 +0200 > From: Alan & Kim Zimmerman <alan.z...@gmail.com> > To: "ghc-devs@haskell.org" <ghc-devs@haskell.org> > Subject: Show instance for SrcSpan > > Is there any reason I can't put in a diff request to replace the derived > Show instance for SrcSpan with a handcrafted one that does not exhausively > list the constructors, making it more readable? > > Alan
I like the notion that `Read . Show` should always work. Dropping parts of a datatype would break that rule. matthias _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs