[Template-haskell] automatic instances for pretty printing and parsing

[Johannes Waldmann]

Dear all,

I use Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJ and
Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec heavily so I made
some DrIFT rules for deriving the "obvious" instances for

class ToDoc  a where toDoc :: a -> Doc
class Reader a where readerPrec :: Int -> Parser a

http://141.57.11.163/cgi-bin/cvsweb/drift/src/UserRuleToDoc.hs?rev=1.5

Still I'd like to avoid external preprocessors (for hygienic reasons,
and because they do not seem to fit well with the Cabal model)
so I'd like to investigate whether I could get the same effect
with Template Haskell (in ghc) - and what this would cost.
Perhaps someone has solved a similar problem before.

On the other hand, HaXml does need DrIFT it seems.
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