Proposal: Debug.Trace.traceWith

[Michael Sloan]

I often define

tracer prefix x = trace (prefix ++ ": " ++ show x) x

A bit arbitrary with the choice of ": ", but quite convenient. The with
variant would be

tracerWith prefix f x = trace (prefix ++ ": " ++ show (f x)) x

On Feb 9, 2018 5:09 PM, "Kris Nuttycombe" <kris.nuttycombe at gmail.com> wrote:

When using Debug.Trace for debugging, a very common operation is to prefer
to trace only some subset or function of an intermediate result. As a
consequence, I propose adding the following function to Debug.Trace:

traceWith :: (Show b) => (a -> b) -> a -> a
traceWith f a = trace (show $ f a) a

While it's trivial to define, I have found this to be one of the most
useful functions in my trace-based debugging toolkit, hence my proposal
that it be added to base. It generalizes `traceShowId` in a meaningful and
useful fashion.

As this is the first such proposal I've put forth, please let me know if
I'm doing anything wrong with it!

Thanks,

Kris Nuttycombe

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