:info features

[Remi Turk]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:47:36AM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Remi Turk wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:31:24PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
>>> My vote would be:
>>>
>>> :info class Show
>>> :info type Show
>>> :info instance Show
>>>
>>> where
>>>
>>> :info Show
>>>
>>> displays information about everything called "Show"
>>>
>>> I know that classes and types share the same namespace currently, but 
>>> it  might not always be so.
>>
>> Sounds good in principle, and has the advantage of being 100%
>> backward compatible, but ":i class Show" for the common case
>> (ahum, _my_ common case at least ;) still seems rather verbose,
>> so how to abbreviate that?
>
> How about a macro?
>
> :def ic return . (":info class " ++)

Ah of course, I keep forgetting about :def :)

Note that when classes and types would stop sharing their namespace,
":info instance Show" would again be ambiguous though..

Groeten, Remi