[Haskell-cafe] Which pretty print library?

Oliver Charles ollie at ocharles.org.uk
Thu Oct 4 16:42:41 UTC 2018


Another happy prettyprinter user here.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 5:30 PM Vanessa McHale <vanessa.mchale at iohk.io> wrote:
>
> I've used prettyprinter and I've been reasonably happy with it. I'd
> recommend *not* using ansi-wl-pprint but I don't have much experience
> with anything beyond those two since I've not had any reason to move on
> from prettyprinter :)
>
> On 10/04/2018 10:48 AM, waldmann wrote:
> > Dear Cafe,
> >
> > what is today's answer to this old question:
> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9761507/which-pretty-print-library
> >
> > In particular, I agree with author's:
> > "The thing that worries me about these [many pretty-printing libraries]
> > is that many of them have many releases. This implies they've had
> > features added, bugs fixed, etc. But have they all had the same
> > bugs fixed?"
> >
> > Meanwhile, there's https://hackage.haskell.org/package/prettyprinter
> > "This package solves all these issues, and then some."
> > (clearly an instance of https://xkcd.com/927/ )
> >
> > GHC is using pretty-1.1.3.6 ?
> >
> > - J.W.
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