Re: [Haskell-cafe] x -> String

David Virebayre wrote:

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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Is there any way that you can turn an arbitrary Haskell value into a string?

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I rephrase: There *is* a way to turn arbitrary values into strings. I know there is, because the GHCi debugger *does* it. The question is, does anybody know of an /easy/ way to do this?

Ghci only displays values with a Show instance.

Well, I can live with getting an empty string if no Show instance is available. But I can't figure out how to even do that...