Liftings of the Prelude classes Eq, Ord, Read and Show to unary and binary type constructors.

These classes are needed to express the constraints on arguments of transformers in portable Haskell. Thus for a new transformer T, one might write instances like

instance (Eq1 f) => Eq1 (T f) where ...
instance (Ord1 f) => Ord1 (T f) where ...
instance (Read1 f) => Read1 (T f) where ...
instance (Show1 f) => Show1 (T f) where ...

If these instances can be defined, defining instances of the base classes is mechanical:

instance (Eq1 f, Eq a) => Eq (T f a) where (==) = eq1
instance (Ord1 f, Ord a) => Ord (T f a) where compare = compare1
instance (Read1 f, Read a) => Read (T f a) where
  readPrec     = readPrec1
  readListPrec = readListPrecDefault
instance (Show1 f, Show a) => Show (T f a) where showsPrec = showsPrec1

Since: base-4.9.0.0