Re: Pretty class as alternative for Show class

On Feb 13, 2008 2:15 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote:

It seems like it was a good idea for me to ask. - What about uploading all three packages to Hackage (Johannes Waldmann's, Johan Tibell's and John Meacham's - the package idea seems to be related to the first name :-) and propose them as addition to the standard Show class? It would help people to convince no to abuse the Show class for pretty printing.

My Pretty class is exactly the same as the Show class (i.e. returns a String). I just want two versions of the same thing. It's like Python's repr and str. Both returns strings but with different purposes. Relying on a pp library is often too heavyweight for my needs. -- Johan