Re: limitations of newtype-derivings (fixed)

On 4/11/06, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

| > deriving (Show Foo)

I'm all for that. A modest but useful gain. All we need is the syntax, and that is something that Haskell Prime might usefully define.

Speaking of which, how about simply qualifying a body-less instance with "deriving," like this:

deriving instance Show Foo

-- Cheers, Dinko