RE: instance Show (a->b) (was Re: GHC-4.00 assembler crash)

[Sigbjorn Finne (Intl Vendor)]

Felix Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 
>
> 
> > To quote from somewhere deep within the Prelude:
> 
> >   instance Show (a -> b) where 
> >     showsPrec _ _ = showString "<<function>>"
> 
> > [meta-comment: could we just do away with this one? Beyond giving
> > rise to semi-entertaining bugs, it's of precious little 
> practical use..]
> 
> I think, it IS of practical use for hugs users, as it prints
> <<function>> as a response of a function valued expression instead
> of an error message that it can't find an instance of Show for the
> type of the entered expression.
> 

That's a Hugs user interface issue, and can be solved without polluting
the Haskell Prelude, i.e., no need to burden the rest of us with it ;-)

> 
> > begin 600 MachRegs.diff
> 
> Why not in clear text? :-)
> 

because Outlook scares me no end :-) 

> > [... uuencode deleted ...]
> 
> Regards, Felix.
> 
> PS: The Message-Id in your mail is a bit strange. Usually, it should
> be <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> 

Maybe so, but it's within the bounds of what constitutes a legal addr-spec
as per RFC 822.

--Sigbjorn