[core libraries] Re: Proposal: Debug.Trace.traceWith

[Gershom B]

From: Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de>

> But on the other hand, pointfree.io tells me that you can write
>
> trace =<< f
> trace =<< show . f
>
> so I'm not sure how urgent these are.

Nifty! If we add this prominently to the docs in Data.Trace, wouldn’t
that suit us better?

If I’m not mistaken, those make use of the unwrapped reader monad? In my
opinion, that is an instance that is confusing and unidiomatic to many
people. I don’t think that “easy to write with unwrapped reader” is the
same as “easy to write” (or “easy to understand”). I wouldn’t want core
docs to recommend this as an approach.

-g
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