On 04/12/2007, Felipe Lessa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I always thought show was meant for returning a String that could be > used to recreate the original data if you copy-pasted it in your code > or if you used read (i.e. read . show == id). Reading the > documentation more carefully, I see that [1] says that this property > holds for *derived* instances, and says nothing about it in the > general case. > > So, what's the deal here? May I use Show for anything without breaking > conventions? And how about Read?
That seems to be convention though I don't think it's required for the correct operation of anything. Anyone? -- Dougal Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.dougalstanton.net _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
