Proposal: Show and Read for Data.Ord.Down

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 25.09.2013, 15:17 +0200 schrieb Krzysztof Gogolewski:
> I propose to add derived Show and Read instances to Data.Ord.Down.
> This should be uncontroversial. Any thoughts?

I could imagine that such instances were intentionally not put there
because the author of Down has intended it to be used only
“temporarily”, e.g.
        map (\(Down x) -> x) . sort . map Down
so the absence of the instances encourage that usage pattern.

Not sure though if base should be encouraging certain usage patterns.
Also, Show is useful for debugging.

A mildly positive *shrug* from me.

Greetings
Joachim


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