On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Andrea Rossato
And so your plan of world domination has been eventually revealed! You want to get rid of the very reasons why xmobar had to be written! I'll fight it to death!! ;)
I'm just kidding... very nice idea, indeed.
Muahahaha!!! Hehe, of course, that's not really my intention. Rest assured that my REAL plan of world domination has yet to be revealed. As Spencer points out, there are still good reasons to use xmobar.
Just one question: why Maybe String? I had a very quick read at your code, but as far as I understand using 'catMaybes' means that 'Just []' and 'Nothing' have the very same meaning. Am I wrong?
Hmm... well, using 'catMaybes' doesn't do that: catMaybes [Just "abc", Nothing] --> ["abc"], but catMaybes [Just "abc", Just ""] --> ["abc", ""]. But in the end I guess you're right, since the status bar output function filters out the empty string (in particular the "sepBy" function filters out the null string). I didn't realize this before, and I wonder whether it is really the correct behavior. My intention was to allow for two different cases, one in which a logger does not want to output anything (or gives an error), and another in which the logger explicitly wants to output the empty string. For example, maybe you have a logger which only outputs something some of the time, but when it is not outputting anything you still want a blank space where it would have been. I don't know, it's not really very important either way, I guess. =) -Brent