Show and Read instance

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What shall the Show and Read instances show and parse, respectively? It is certainly a good thing, if

  • read parses, what show shows.

The next question is: Shall show emit valid Haskell code, that represents the shown data, or shall it show something user friendly, maybe even something that is formatted in a line-oriented way.

Meaning of Show and Read


Raw vs. Show

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