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Improving all Haskell's programmer interfaces
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"Show" is a misleading name #12

Open tomjaguarpaw opened 4 years ago

tomjaguarpaw commented 4 years ago

Show is a very common but generic word in programming, for showing plots, showing message boxes, showing anything really. Not knowing Haskell I would not have expected it to convert an object to a string.

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