[Haskell-cafe] Formatting strict Text

[Adam Bergmark]

Data.Text definitely has a Monoid instance, it's defined in Data.Text.

- Adam

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:13 PM, fr33domlover <fr33domlover at riseup.net>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have code which uses Text.Printf.printf with String. Now I'm moving the
> code
> to use strict Text everywhere (I picked strict since all my strings are
> very
> short, mostly less than 400 chars). What should I use instead of printf
> now?
>
> One solution I found is the text-format package, which seems to simply
> split a
> Text on occurences of "{}" and insert values there. Are there other simple
> and
> efficient options? All I need is to append Text values and sometimes Ints
> too,
> so it's enough to have
>
> (1) efficient append and concat
> (2) A function that is :: Int -> Text
>
> Why is strict Text not a Monoid instance? And Builder has no `toStrictText`
> function? There is a function to convert Int to Builder and a Buildable
> instance for Int, but for a simple Int->Text it seems I'm left with an ugly
> `T.pack . show`.
>
>
> Suggestions / advice / comments on this?
>
> Thanks in advance :)
>
> fr33
>
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