Future of "Text.Show.Functions" module

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Sun Oct 19 19:03:11 UTC 2014


On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
wrote:

> And if the instance is really as bad as that, I think having it in base at
> all is a mistake. All it takes it one library upstream from you to import
> that module, and you've been infected.


It's useful in ghci.

Which suggests a possible solution: perhaps things like this that are
mostly useful from ghci should go into a GHC.Interactive hierarchy.

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