<html><body>Dear all,<div>I’ve found as a surprise that several members of the Committee have voted against, or even marked as dangerous, the DeriveAnyClass extension. Given that I am a great fan of it, I would like to open the debate about the particular extension.</div><div><br></div><div>In my case, most of my uses are to derive ToJSON and FromJSON from the Aeson package. I find it very nice to be able to pack all the information about auto-derived instances in a small block, instead of including Eq and Show in the deriving block, and then a few empty instance declarations below. This is definitely mainly a aesthetic reason.</div><div><br></div><div>The other reason for adoption is that it makes classes such as Eq or Show less “special”, so one does not have to explain to beginners that some classes can be derived in this way, some others in that other way, and so on. So my other reason for inclusion would be a uniformity one.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Alejandro</div></body></html>