Why are there no Show instances for internal types

[Joachim Breitner]

Am Samstag, den 18.03.2017, 14:03 +0100 schrieb Tom Sydney Kerckhove:
> 
> - 'Outputting' a value requires DynFlags. (yes, I know about pprTrace)


You can often get away with

showSDocUnsafe . ppr :: Outputable a => a -> String

Greetings,
Joachim
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