Hi, I am not sure about the rationale but if you need a program/library which re-renders Show-able values with more spaces, so that they are more human readable, I wrote one (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pretty-show). I find it very useful for debugging. -Iavor
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Evan Laforge <qdun...@gmail.com> wrote: > This must be explained somewhere, but I can't find it. I've always > been curious why ghc's Show avoids all unnecessary spaces. It's > contrary to how most people format source so it can't be pasted into > source, and can be hard to read. Other languages tend to put in > spaces. I don't see anything in > http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/basic.html specifying the > whitespace usage of Show. I notice that the examples don't use > spaces, but those are just examples, right? > > What's the rationale? > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-prime mailing list > Haskell-prime@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime > _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
