On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>I&#39;m currently writing a ShowInstances module with orphan Show instances for all GHC data types. I will just import that during development, but not include it in the final code. It will hopefully satisfy my current need.</div>


</div></blockquote><div></div></div><br><div>This would have been useful to me in the past, and I&#39;m guessing others would find it useful, too. It seems like a package of standalone derived Show instances would require little maintenance (since you don&#39;t need to modify the instances for changes to datatypes, only for adding/removing them) yet provide a great benefit for newcomers to GHC, while not bloating GHC itself.</div>


<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Sean</div>