[Haskell-cafe] Re: is there a way to pretty print a module?

[Simon Richard Clarkstone]

Anatoly Yakovenko wrote:
>>> is there a way to pretty print a module?
>>> like:
>>>
>>> module Main where
>>> import Language.Haskell.TH
>>> main = do
>>>  print $ pprint Main
>>>
>> haskell-src should be able to do that.
> 
> I think haskell-src requires you to read the module at run time.  I
> want to embed the contents of the module in my program.  Basically a
> program that can print itself.

This is rather like the idea of a quine; a program the prints itself out 
without referring directly to its own source code.  The usual Haskell 
quine is:

putStrLn$(\s->s++show s)"putStrLn$(\\s->s++show s)"

If merely returning the source code is enough then you can do:

(\s->s++show s)"(\\s->s++show s)"

It could be more elegant if \ weren't both lambda and string escape.

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