[Haskell-cafe] What does the "S" in "ShowS" signify?

[Brandon Allbery]

I always figured the P in ReadP was Parser and the S in ShowS was Show-er,
despite it being a duplication (possibly because nobody could come up with
a better name).

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Javran Cheng <javran.c at gmail.com> wrote:

> also interested in knowing this, I'm not 100% sure but I think it has
> something to do with diff list. if this is the case, perhaps DShow is a
> better name?
>
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Chris Martin <ch.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The name "ShowS" in Text.Show always been mysterious to me. Can anyone
>> explain why it's called that?
>>
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