[Haskell-cafe] Graphical representation of Haskell code

[Lyndon Maydwell]

Reminds me of To Dissect a Mockingbird [http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/].

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Ivan Miljenovic
<ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 March 2010 10:02, Dupont Corentin <corentin.dupont at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I’m relatively new to Haskell.
>
> Welcome!
>
>> I’m wondering if it exist a tool to graphically represent Haskell code.
>>
>> Look at the little graphics at: http://www.haskell.org/arrows/index.html (and following pages) from Ross Paterson.
>>
>> If found these very useful to understand the Arrow monad.
>>
>> Why not automatise this in a tool? Such a tool could draw a graphic from the code of a program.
>
> 1) Because no-one has written such a tool yet (though someone has
> suggested doing one as a GSoC project).
> 2) I'm of the opinion that unless you just use it on small snippets,
> the generated images will be too large and unweildy.
>
>> This could be done entirely automatically from the types of the functions.
>
> Except not everyone provides type signatures for their functions;
> whilst it may be possible to use the GHC API to infer these type
> signatures, my understanding is that it's preferable to use other
> parsers such as haskell-src-exts as the GHC API is unstable.
>
> [shameless plug]
> My SourceGraph (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/SourceGraph) tool
> does function call visualisation as part of its analyses.
> [/shameless plug]
>
>
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> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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