Re: Proposal: Add readMaybe (and possibly readEither) to Prelude, make Haddocks for read more cautionary

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, Andreas Abel wrote:

When updating the documentation for Read, one can at the same time stress that this class is for parsing values in *Haskell* syntax. Same for Show, it should be stressed that it is for printing values into their *Haskell* linearization.

I'd guess "Show" is the most abused type class. (Our own code base, Agda, is a prime example for this.)

my concerns, too