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

[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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