[Haskell-cafe] Show me

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Tue Aug 5 15:28:41 EDT 2008


Suppose we have the following:

  data Foo x
  list_foo :: [x] -> Foo x
  foo_list :: Foo x -> [x]

What would be the best way to write a Show instance?

The thing that I came up with is

  instance (Show x) => Show (Foo x) where
    show foo = "list_foo " ++ show (foo_list foo)

But apparently you're supposed to use the strange "showsPrec" method 
that I don't understand. So can somebody show me a correct instance 
definition for this type please?



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