Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJ -- has a ByteString version ever been considered?

[Ryan Newton]

Thanks!

That sounds perfect.

To be honest, I presently have no good reason for using one pretty printing
package instead of  another.  I will look forward to a future Hackage having
reviews, ratings, voted best-of-breed packages, or whatnot to make a little
more sense of competing packages.

-Ryan

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 January 2011 12:01, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello libraries [= maintainer of 'pretty' package],
> >
> > I'm a happy user of the pretty printing library, with which I emit large
> > quantities of nicely indented C++ code.  Sometimes I append large strings
> > with "text x <>".
> >
> > In this case performance improvements would not go unappreciated.  Has
> there
> > been any thought of a ByteString version?
>
> Not quite what you're asking, but I'm almost ready to release a text
> [1] version of wl-pprint [2].  The darcs repo can be found at
> http://code.haskell.org/~ivanm/wl-pprint-text/<http://code.haskell.org/%7Eivanm/wl-pprint-text/>
>
> [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text
> [2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/wl-pprint
>
> > I notice that the source is only 1K lines.  While I imagine that you
> > wouldn't want to break the interface in a backwards compatible way, would
> it
> > be possible to simple give the "TextDetails" type a parameter and then
> use a
> > StringLike class (with length, append, what else?).
> > Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJ  could keep the same interface, and the generic
> > version could go in Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJGeneric or
> > Text.PrettyPrint.HughesPJ.Generic or whatever.
>
> I'm not sure how well that would work, especially because you'd
> typically want to use a Builder for the internals (maybe a DList for
> String?) rather than the type itself.
>
> --
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
> IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
>
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