Ah, you want to drop constructor field names. Then I withdraw my reservations.
thanks for the clarification, m. On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 03:27:49PM +0200, Alan & Kim Zimmerman wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:27:49 +0200 > From: Alan & Kim Zimmerman <alan.z...@gmail.com> > To: Matthias Fischmann <m...@zerobuzz.net> > Cc: "ghc-devs@haskell.org" <ghc-devs@haskell.org> > Subject: Re: Show instance for SrcSpan > > Not at all, just show as e.g. > > SrcSpan (RealSrcSpan (SrcSpanOneLine "./foo.hs" 4 1 6)) > > We just avoid showing the srcSpanFile / srcSpanLine / srcSpanSCol / > srcSpanECol noise > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Matthias Fischmann <m...@zerobuzz.net> wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs