26 Dec
2008
26 Dec
'08
3:52 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Jeff Heard
Off the top of my head, I would say that the traditional meaning of Show could be changed to Serial, where serial encompasses both Read and Show -- possibly we could find a more efficient read function, several have been proposed. Then a separate class could be made for HumanReadable (or Loggable) where the point would bet that we write something that can be read by humans without conforming to a particular grammar that Haskell could read back in.
+1. 'Show' sounds like it's for what Java 'toString' and Ruby 'to_s', etc., do, and that's not right.