[Haskell-cafe] How can I use ghci more wisely?

[Kristopher Micinski]

Knowing whether a computation will terminate is in general the halting
problem, so immediately you're looking at a syntactic restriction.
Here the only ones I can think of are artificial at best (i.e., they
don't work for examples more than what you've shown here):

http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/180

There was some discussion [1] on putting a limit to what the
interpreter prints out.  Off the top of my head I suppose a hacky way
to do this would be to define a new type deriving show in a way that
printed out the list to some bounded depth.

Kris

[1] http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2011-July/001619.html

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:30 PM, yi lu <zhiwudazhanjiangshi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am wondering how can I ask ghci to show an infinite list wisely.
> When I type
>
> fst ([1..],[1..10])
>
> The result is what as you may guess
>
> 1,2,3,4,...(continues to show, cut now)
>
> How could I may ghci show
>
> [1..]
>
> this wise way not the long long long list itself?
>
> Yi
>
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