RE: [Haskell-cafe] How can I stop GHCi from calling "show" for IOactions?

| I think a more consistent behavior would be to not print the LHS at | all. If you wanted to print the result of the computation you could | just do: | | Prelude> bar 5 | | or, if you also wanted bound variables afterwards: | | Prelude> (x, Just y) <- bar 5 | Prelude> (x, Just y) I've added Ryan's comments to http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1721 Others might want to add further suggestions there. Simon