On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Jeff Heard <jefferson.r.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > Off the top of my head, I would say that the traditional meaning of > Show could be changed to Serial, where serial encompasses both Read > and Show -- possibly we could find a more efficient read function, > several have been proposed. Then a separate class could be made for > HumanReadable (or Loggable) where the point would bet that we write > something that can be read by humans without conforming to a > particular grammar that Haskell could read back in.
+1. 'Show' sounds like it's for what Java 'toString' and Ruby 'to_s', etc., do, and that's not right. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
