You can make it derive Show as well as Eq, then you'll have the default haskell's string representation of your record. You'd only need an additional function if you wanted to pretty print your records in some specific, non standard way.
Best wishes,
Karolis Velicka
Hello all,
I have a record type like this
data Payload = Pl {
pType :: Char,
accepts :: String,
produces :: String,
workarea :: String} deriving (Eq)
an I want to write my own show function. I ended up with somethink like this
show pl = concatMap ( $ pl) [show . pType, show . accepts, show . produces, show . workarea]
That repetition of "show ." annoys me, but of course without it the elements of that list would have different types. Is
there a way around it and how does haskell itself manage to show records?
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