[Haskell-cafe] Reformatter for Show

Christopher Done chrisdone at googlemail.com
Mon May 2 22:35:42 CEST 2011


On 2 May 2011 22:01, Alexey Khudyakov <alexey.skladnoy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> Haskell have nice automatically derivable Show type class. It's quite
> useful for debugging with one exception. String representation of even
> moderately large value is completely unreadable (example below).
>
> My question is there any tool for reformatting result of show so it could
> be read by human beings?
>

I'm working on an inspector for it in Emacs, similar to Firebug/Chrome
developer bar expansion of objects. If you use Emacs I can let you know when
I've done it.
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