Re: Show instance for SrcSpan

On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 02:59:03PM +0200, Alan & Kim Zimmerman wrote:

Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:59:03 +0200 From: Alan & Kim Zimmerman To: "ghc-devs@haskell.org" Subject: Show instance for SrcSpan

Is there any reason I can't put in a diff request to replace the derived Show instance for SrcSpan with a handcrafted one that does not exhausively list the constructors, making it more readable?

Alan

I like the notion that `Read . Show` should always work. Dropping parts of a datatype would break that rule. matthias