[Haskell-cafe] Re: How to pretty print code efficiently

Achim Schneider barsoap at web.de
Fri Jul 3 23:17:15 EDT 2009


Achim Schneider <barsoap at web.de> wrote:

> As for how to express it in code: I'd recommend a combination of a
> State monad to track the indentation, and the underused[1] Applicative
> interpretation of lists to concatenate stuff. >>= would function as
> concatenation of lines, getting the state, while the indent function
> would first set it to the new level, then execute the passed
> sub-action, and finally reset it to the old level. You're going to
> need a way to concatenate two strings without doing a line-break,
> too, of course.
>
Make that "Reader Monad" and "execute the passed sub-action with the
new level inside a new monad"

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