[Haskell-cafe] Function Precedence

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Hans Aberg wrote:

> Show could be implemented by writing out the function closures, but I 
> think the reason it is not there is that it would create overhead in 
> compiled code.

It would also not give referential transparent answers, because the same 
function can be implemented in different ways:
   http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Show_instance_for_functions