This is AWESOME! If only I had this when I started learning Haskell :-)
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Don Stewart
I am pleased to announce the release of vacuum-cairo, a Haskell library for interactive rendering and display of values on the GHC heap using Matt Morrow's vacuum library.
This library takes vacuum's output, generates dot graph format from it, renders it to SVG with graphviz, and displays the resulting structure using the gtk2hs Cairo vector graphics bindings ... all at the GHCi command line.
This tool is useful for examining Haskell data structures as they are represented directly in the heap. In particular, it makes sharing visible for the first time, as well as unboxed values. It should be useful for teaching Haskell, or for library authors debugging the design of their data structures.
You can see pictures of the rendered display here:
http://code.haskell.org/~dons/images/vacuum/intmap.png
And youtube screencasts of vacuum-cairo in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oujaqo9GAmA
Get it:
cabal install vacuum-cairo
And on Hackage:
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/vacuum-cairo
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