At 2002-02-19 22:46, Bernard James POPE wrote:
The scheme I suggested for generic printing was not as safe as you might like, but it was intended to be simple and easy to implement, and there is some merit in that I think.
I strongly recommend you check out generic classes: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/set/generic-classes.html I suspect you can use them to do what you want... -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA
The page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/set/generic-classes.html starts with the text (Note: support for generic classes is currently broken in GHC 5.02). and I know from testing earlier versions that the generic-classes support was pretty buggy. Is there any hope of a revival? Does it already work in CVS? I suspect it will rot away if nobody works on it. Any comments from the implementors - does the idea "fit well" with ghc? Is it a lot of work to make it more stable? /Patrik PS. I guess I should try to find resources (interested students) for a project on making the ghc generic classes really work.
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