showing Ratios

Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatchki at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 22:56:21 EST 2010


Hi,
I am not sure about the rationale but if you need a program/library
which re-renders Show-able values with more spaces, so that they are
more human readable,  I wrote one
(http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pretty-show).  I find it very
useful for debugging.
-Iavor

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> wrote:
> This must be explained somewhere, but I can't find it.  I've always
> been curious why ghc's Show avoids all unnecessary spaces.  It's
> contrary to how most people format source so it can't be pasted into
> source, and can be hard to read.  Other languages tend to put in
> spaces.  I don't see anything in
> http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/basic.html specifying the
> whitespace usage of Show.  I notice that the examples don't use
> spaces, but those are just examples, right?
>
> What's the rationale?
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