[Haskell-cafe] can the default instances in GHC be recompiled with overlap?

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Aug 25, 2008, at 15:00 , Jason Dusek wrote:
>  It is inconvenient for certain things. If I want to declare a
>  special `instance Show [MyType] where...` I am out of luck.

In this particular case, can't you just define showList?

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