Max Rabkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Though I would argue that unless you're trying to actually use for
> > Show/Read for serialisation, does it really matter what the
> > Show/Read instances for Bytestring are?
>
> Convenient debugging and REPL interaction certainly matter!
On the other hand, having a separate Show instance for Vector Word8
would require either writing all Show instances explicitly or keeping
two separate packages. I would prefer to have the two packages merged
into one.
But since I find a useful Show instance for ByteString useful, too, I
would go with the first variant of providing a few default instances
instead of a generic Show a => Show (Vector a) instance. That way you
can write nicer instances for some other element types, too. For
example I can imagine how a much nicer Vector Bool instance would look
like:
fromBoolString "1.1..111..1"
Greets,
Ertugrul
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