:info features

[Peter Hercek]

Remi Turk wrote:
> SPJ agreed with the idea itself, but suggested an alternative set of commands:
>
>    :info Show        -- See class definition only
>    :instances Show   -- See instances of Show
>   

Hi Remi,

If you do not want to wait till this is implemented you can do it 
yourself using ghci scripting.
Details how to do it are in tutorial from Claus Reinke:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-September/032260.html
Understanding all the possibilities and limitations of ghci scripting 
may take a day or maybe even more. But once you are done with it you can 
implement your :instances command and and something like 
:infoWithoutInstances withing an hour at most. And it is more 
interesting that you could do much more extensions like this easily if 
you need them in the future.

Peter.