Easy pretty print in Haskell
Dec 23, 2014 · 1 minute read · CodingI repeatedly struggle with GHCi when I want to print lists and maps and actually look at them and analyze them. Today I came accross pretty-show, a haskell package that allows pretty printing of all objects that are instances of the type class Show.
The usage is very straight forward:
import qualified Text.Show.Pretty as Pr
This provides Pr.ppShow which can be used in GHCi (or other interpreters):
putStrLn $ Pr.ppShow object