[Haskell-cafe] Fancy REPL

[Heinrich Apfelmus]

Dear list,

the  Show  class is extremely useful for exploring Haskell in a 
terminal, but sometimes, I just want something fancier. For instance, 
I'm currently dabbling with sound generation and it is only natural that 
I want to hear the sound instead of seeing a textual representation. 
Another example would be graphics, that are simply drawn on screen 
whenever you evaluate their value.

Of course, this is simple to implement with a class

     class Demonstrable a where
         demo :: a -> IO ()

     instance Demonstrable Sound where demo = play
     instance Demonstrable Sound where demo = draw
     instance Demonstrable GUI   where demo = run
     etc.


However, I don't want to reinvent the wheel, small as it may be, hence 
my question: is there a package on hackage that already defines a class 
similar to  Demonstrable ? Or any other projects in this direction, 
like, say, a fancy REPL built on wxHaskell?


Best regards,
Heinrich Apfelmus

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