[Haskell-cafe] Don't make 'show*' functions

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Jeff Heard wrote:

> I don't think that making Show a type class was a mistake.  I think
> that we have long since overloaded the meaning of Show and made it
> ambiguous.  There are multiple distinct reasons people use Show, and
> this gets confusing.  It would be good if we as a community tried to
> nail down these different meanings that people tend to attach to Show
> and fork out new type classes that each encompass those meanings.

+1

See also
   http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Show_and_Read_instance