Unexpected behaviour in Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJ

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On 9/23/05, Anders Höckersten <chucky at dtek.chalmers.se> wrote:
>
>
> Thank you for your answer. That does make some sense. On the other hand,
> I am not sure I think this behaviour is reasonable. I think these two
> should be equivalent:
> Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJ> text "foo" <+> empty <> text "bar"
> foobar
> Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJ> text "foo" <+> text "" <> text "bar"
> foo bar
>
> I argue that (text "" == empty) and that I should be able to use them
> synonymously. The point I think I'm trying to make is that I have used
> this pretty printing library for a while now, and I have never had to
> worry about the precedence of the operators before.


I'm not sure I agree, but if you really want that, maybe you could simply
make your
own module where
empty = text ""
or
text "" = empty
test x = HughesPJ.test x

Best regards
Tomasz
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