#1841: Data.Typeable: Instances of basic types don't provide qualified strings
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mkTyCon
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: libraries/base | Version: 6.8.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Architecture: Unknown
Os: Unknown |
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Changes (by simonpj):
* difficulty: => Unknown
Comment:
All true. Particularly the point about tuples being "(,,)" etc.
Whoever wrote `Data.Typeable` didn't think about this I guess. However
while it "might be wise" to us a fully-qualified name, a data type like
`Int` is actually `GHC.Base.Int` for GHC, and doubtless something
different for Hugs. So arguably giving the fully-qualified name would
make life more inconvenient in some ways. Does it actually ''help'' to
fully-qualify the names of built-in types like `Int`?
To put it another way, can you explain in a bit more detail why making it
all consistent would help you? (Other than simply making is more
consistent, which is a good goal, but at a cost as I remarked above.)
Regardless, we should fix the "(,,)" thing.
Simon
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