the generics support
in GHC so that you could do something like deriving Read for your
own new class.
Simon
| -Original Message-
| From: Peter Thiemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| Sent: 15 October 2001 11:45
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Robustness of instance Read
Folks,
my code has unwillingly been forced to read a large string generated
by show. This turned out to be a robustness test because the effect is
a stack overflow (with Hugs as well as with GHC) and, of course, this
error happened in a CGI script.
If you want to try the effect yourself, just