[Haskell-cafe] Library pretty print values in Tabular format

[Guru Devanla]

Thanks for the feedback.

@Heinrich Yes, that would be nice. I was hoping in the future, I could
allow for the user to set some kind of precision value. That would make
sure we have a fixed number of digits after the decimal. May be for now, I
could "fix" that value and make it align.

@Tony Yes, I do have a piece of code commented out where I attempted to
make it generic but did not pursue that option. Your suggestion is very
valid and I am hoping to get there.




On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Tony Day <tonyday567 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it be possible to go polymorphic on the container shape? Eg Rather
> than having toBoxVector etc, create a Traversable a => Boxable a class with
> a toBox method etc.
>
> If you go aligning decimals, the Formatting library would come in handy.
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 6:18 AM Heinrich Apfelmus <
> apfelmus at quantentunnel.de> wrote:
>
>> I like it!
>>
>> One feature I would like to see: Have you considered aligning decimal
>> points? I.e. an output along the lines of
>>
>> ticker     price          marketCap
>>   "YHOO"      42.2910101     0.40   e11
>>   "GOOG"     774.210101      5.3209 e11
>>   "AMZN"     799.161717      3.7886 e11
>>
>> or something like that. In this format, it is easier to survey the order
>> of magnitude of a quantity. Then again, exponents `e10` may be trickier
>> to handle.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Heinrich Apfelmus
>>
>> --
>> http://apfelmus.nfshost.com
>>
>>
>> Gurudev Devanla wrote:
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > I am happy to publish a new library on Hackage that lets one print
>> values
>> > contained in lists, maps, vectors in a tabular format. This is motivated
>> > from the output I am used to seeing while using the Pandas library in
>> > Python. This is my first Haskell library and I look forward to feedback
>> and
>> > suggestions on improving the library.
>> >
>> > https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pptable
>> > https://github.com/gdevanla/pptable#readme
>> >
>> > One thing, which I right away do not like about the library is the
>> > constraints where the values will have to derive from both Data.Data and
>> > GHC.Generic.Generics.
>> >
>> > Thank you and I look forward to some feedback.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Guru
>> >
>> > P.S:  I spent a lot of time trying to  make Hackage produce the haddock
>> > links. Any pointers to that would be helpful.  And "stack sdist" does
>> not
>> > package the documentation automatically.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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