Re: [Haskell-cafe] can the default instances in GHC be recompiled with overlap?

On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 15:44 -0700, Jason Dusek wrote:

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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Jason Dusek wrote:

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It is inconvenient for certain things. If I want to declare a special `instance Show [MyType] where...` I am out of luck.

In this particular case, can't you just define showList?

Will GHCi use that automatically? Probably not... Nor can I write nice codez with print, printf, &c. I have to use my silly function now. I want to be in the Show typeclass for clarity as well as convenience.

showList is a method of the Show type class... http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Prelude.html#v% 3AshowList jcc