[Haskell-cafe] Advice for clean code.

[Dougal Stanton]

On 04/12/2007, Felipe Lessa <felipe.lessa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I always thought show was meant for returning a String that could be
> used to recreate the original data if you copy-pasted it in your code
> or if you used read (i.e. read . show == id). Reading the
> documentation more carefully, I see that [1] says that this property
> holds for *derived* instances, and says nothing about it in the
> general case.
>
> So, what's the deal here? May I use Show for anything without breaking
> conventions? And how about Read?


That seems to be convention though I don't think it's required for the
correct operation of anything. Anyone?

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Dougal Stanton
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