[GHC] #2986: :info printing instances often isn't wanted

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Thu Feb 16 09:24:05 CET 2012


#2986: :info printing instances often isn't wanted
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    Reporter:  Remi              |       Owner:                  
        Type:  feature request   |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  lowest            |   Milestone:  7.6.1           
   Component:  GHCi              |     Version:  6.10.1          
    Keywords:  :info instances   |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
     Related:                    |  
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Comment(by simonpj):

 OK good.  Would you care to modify your patch to do that?  I think it's
 fine for `:i` to still mean `:info`.

 It would be great if you could make `:instances` deal with family
 instances too.

 Thanks

 Simon

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2986#comment:19>
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