On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Nicolas Frisby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicolas.frisby@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicolas.frisby@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>What I would like to see is something like:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">HsApp (HsApp (HsApp (HsVar "foldl'") (HsVar "+")) (HsLit 0)) (HsVar "xs")</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">We could derive ‘Show’ on everything but that would generate a LOT of new code, that would seldom be used. Also ‘Show’ doesn’t pretty-print so the result would
be illegible. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div>
<p><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div><div>If plugins could be used before the conversion to Core, such a plugin might be a tidy way to workaround the issue of bloating GHC's binary size with all that Show code.</div>
<div> </div><div>This previous email thread <a href="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2012-March/022076.html" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2012-March/022076.html</font></a> seems relevant, and Marlow's comment there makes it sound like a pretty easy change.</div>
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</blockquote></div><br><div>I'm currently writing a ShowInstances module with orphan Show instances for all GHC data types. I will just import that during development, but not include it in the final code. It will hopefully satisfy my current need.</div>
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