[Haskell-cafe] Defining show for a function type.

[Udo Stenzel]

Johan Grönqvist wrote:
> I would like use a list (as stack) that can contain several kinds of values.
> 
> data Element = Int Int | Float Float | Func : Machine -> Machine  | ...
> 
> Now I would like to have this type be an instance of the class Show, so 
> that I can see what the stack contains in ghci.
> 
> "deriving Show" is impossible as Func is not instance of Show. Can I 
> make it instance of Show?

Of course you can:

instance Show Element where
    showsPrec p (Int i) = showsPrec p i
    showsPrec p (Float f) = showsPrec p f
    showsPrec _ (Func _) = ("<<function>>" ++)
    ...


Udo.
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