On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 19:34 +0000, Simon Richard Clarkstone wrote: > Anatoly Yakovenko wrote: > >>> is there a way to pretty print a module? > >>> like: > >>> > >>> module Main where > >>> import Language.Haskell.TH > >>> main = do > >>> print $ pprint Main > >>> > >> haskell-src should be able to do that. > > > > I think haskell-src requires you to read the module at run time. I > > want to embed the contents of the module in my program. Basically a > > program that can print itself. > > This is rather like the idea of a quine; a program the prints itself out > without referring directly to its own source code. The usual Haskell > quine is: > > putStrLn$(\s->s++show s)"putStrLn$(\\s->s++show s)" > > If merely returning the source code is enough then you can do: > > (\s->s++show s)"(\\s->s++show s)" > > It could be more elegant if \ weren't both lambda and string escape.
So get rid of the lambda, ap(++)show"ap(++)show" _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
