[ghc-steering-committee] Discussion: List instances for a type in GHCi #166

Joachim Breitner mail at joachim-breitner.de
Mon Nov 5 14:08:28 UTC 2018


And nobody disagrees… accepted

Cheers,
Joachim

Am Montag, den 29.10.2018, 00:16 -0400 schrieb Richard Eisenberg:
> Yes, I'm in favor.
> 
> Richard
> 
> > On Oct 26, 2018, at 1:59 PM, Iavor Diatchki <iavor.diatchki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'd like to start the discussion about feature request #166, "List instances for a type in GHCi".  In short, the idea is that we add a new command to GHCi, `:instances TYPE`, which given a type, will show the list of instances---for any class---that could be used with this type.
> > 
> > It seems like this could be a potentially handy thing to do, and it doesn't really interfere with anything else, so I recommend that we accept it.
> > 
> > Please let me know what you think.
> > 
> > -Iavor
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