On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> wrote:
And if the instance is really as bad as that, I think having it in base at all is a mistake. All it takes it one library upstream from you to import that module, and you've been infected.
It's useful in ghci.
Which suggests a possible solution: perhaps things like this that are mostly useful from ghci should go into a GHC.Interactive hierarchy.