Instance Show Html ?

[johannesgerer]

Just wanted to start a discussion about a possible show instance for Html. I think it would be nice for debugging and interactive programming in ghci...

[jaspervdj]

Right. The problem is that the straightforward instance (dumping the tree with the constructors) would not be very readable at all (but perhaps useful for debugging).

I usually just use Text.Blaze.Html.Renderer.Pretty.renderHtml in GHCi. I would reckon that would also make a better Show instance... this requires moving a lot of code around to avoid orphans though.

[ghost]

Eq would help for tests also