4 Dec
2007
4 Dec
'07
5:26 a.m.
On 04/12/2007, Felipe Lessa
I always thought show was meant for returning a String that could be used to recreate the original data if you copy-pasted it in your code or if you used read (i.e. read . show == id). Reading the documentation more carefully, I see that [1] says that this property holds for *derived* instances, and says nothing about it in the general case.
So, what's the deal here? May I use Show for anything without breaking conventions? And how about Read?
That seems to be convention though I don't think it's required for the correct operation of anything. Anyone? -- Dougal Stanton dougal@dougalstanton.net // http://www.dougalstanton.net