On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Jeff Heard wrote:
I don't think that making Show a type class was a mistake. I think that we have long since overloaded the meaning of Show and made it ambiguous. There are multiple distinct reasons people use Show, and this gets confusing. It would be good if we as a community tried to nail down these different meanings that people tend to attach to Show and fork out new type classes that each encompass those meanings.
+1 See also http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Show_and_Read_instance _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
