Hello everyone!
Haskell have nice automatically derivable Show type class. It's quite
useful for debugging with one exception. String representation of even
moderately large value is completely unreadable (example below).
My question is there any tool for reformatting result of show so it
could be read by human beings?
Real life example of world salad produced by show
> Module (SrcLoc {srcFilename = "rec.hs", srcLine = 1, srcColumn = 1})
> (ModuleName "Main") [OptionsPragma (SrcLoc {srcFilename = "rec.hs",
> srcLine = 1, srcColumn = 1}) (Just GHC) "-F -pgmF ./preprocessor "]
> Nothing (Just [EVar (UnQual (Ident "main"))]) [] [DataDecl (SrcLoc
> {srcFilename = "rec.hs", srcLine = 3, srcColumn = 1}) DataType []
> (Ident "Foo") [] [QualConDecl (SrcLoc {srcFilename = "rec.hs",
> srcLine = 3, srcColumn = 12}) [] [] (RecDecl (Ident "Foo") [([Ident
> "asd"],UnBangedTy (TyCon (UnQual (Ident "Int")))),([Ident
> "fgh"],UnBangedTy (TyCon (UnQual (Ident "String"))))])] [(UnQual
> ...
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