You can store both values, a function and a string representation, in a predicate:

data Predicate = Predicate (a -> Bool) String

And write corresponding Show instance to show string.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:55 PM, martin <martin.drautzburg@web.de> wrote:
Hello all,

in my program, I do stuff with predicates (a->Bool). For the most part this representation is just fine, but at the very
end I need to convert a resulting predicate into a String so I can write it to a file.

Wenn I represent my predicates as Lists or Sets, then this is doable and I am tempted to do it this way. The only other
option I could come up with was to have a representation of "everything", which would in my case be large (10^8) but
finite. Then I could construct a List or a Set at the very end, as [x | x<-everything, p x] without having explicit sets
in the intermediate steps.

I cannot see any other option, but I thought I better ask.
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