On 19 October 2011 22:09, Roman Leshchinskiy <r...@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote: > > So it seems that (1) people have very different requirements and (2) the > Show instance only really matters for debugging in ghci. Here is a > thought. What if ghci allowed Show instances to be overridden dynamically? > So you could put your preferred Show instance for Vector Word8 in you > .ghci file and ghci would use that when displaying stuff (but not when > actually evaluating things). Would that solve most of the problems without > messing with vector's Show instances?
Would this hypothetical ghci feature also work for cases where you have a ByteString as part of another type that derives Show and Read? I also wonder whether it would suffice to have a ByteString -> String function available rather than requiring Show per-se for the case of a ByteString on its lonesome. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
