> But there are > plenty of little things in there which mean I would still use my own > library, not Debug.Trace, even if it did have a few extra functions.
Oh, I see. That's actually possible. Okay, I'll withdraw my suggestion this time. Thanks! 2018年6月12日(火) 14:25 Evan Laforge <qdun...@gmail.com>: > I agree that tags are necessary, and in fact I recently ported my > internal debug library to cabal because now that I'm doing more stuff > with cabal I find life too difficult without my accustomed debug > library. For reference, it is this, but nothing fancy: > https://github.com/elaforge/el-debug/blob/master/src/EL/Debug.hs > > So that's a vote for those things being worth it. But there are > plenty of little things in there which mean I would still use my own > library, not Debug.Trace, even if it did have a few extra functions. > Such as pretty printing, forcing to avoid interleaved output, timeouts > to avoid hanging, function return value tracing, and probably many > more. And even after that, since there's no global agreed-upon Pretty > class, I had to remove the Pretty variants, which means it loses a > lot. And it may seem petty, but since I type them all the time, I'd > want to use my short names, rather than the increasingly long and > clunky ones in Debug.Trace. > > So rather than adding little bits to Debug.Trace to nudge it towards > usefulness, maybe it would be better to make your own ideal debug > trace library, and just use that wherever you go. > > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Yuji Yamamoto > <whosekitenever...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can anyone give me more feedback? > > I'm interested especially in my last reply. > > > > > > 2018年6月8日(金) 9:19 Yuji Yamamoto <whosekitenever...@gmail.com>: > >> > >> Almost any formatting will do. At least I never care. > >> I assume those APIs would be used for very ad-hoc use (like the other > APIs > >> in Debug.Trace). > >> And debug codes put by such cases are deleted or disabled by NoTrace > >> package in production. > >> I want handy default functions available without batteries. > >> Detailed formatting for debug messages should be configured by > >> third-parties' logging libraries. > >> > >> 2018年6月8日(金) 4:29 Andrew Martin <andrew.thadd...@gmail.com>: > >>> > >>> I am -1 on this. Such a function requires making a decision about > >>> formatting. What does a user expect from > >>> > >>> > taggedTraceShowId "meganum" (42 :: Int) > >>> > >>> Any of these are reasonable: > >>> > >>> meganum: 42 > >>> meganum [42] > >>> [meganum]: 42 > >>> > >>> In different applications I've worked on, I've wanted different flavors > >>> of something like this. Since there's no obvious choice, I don't think > base > >>> is a good place for such a function. > >>> > >>> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Ben Gamari <b...@smart-cactus.org> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Edward Kmett <ekm...@gmail.com> writes: > >>>> > >>>> > What different users would do with such a prefix, how to display it, > >>>> > etc. varies just enough that i’m somewhat hesitant to grow the API. > >>>> > I’m a very weak -1. But I’d happily let anybody else on the > committee > >>>> > override that if they had a strong preference. > >>>> > > >>>> Right, as I mentioned I'm not sure about the tagging idea. However, I > >>>> have found things of the form `(a -> String) -> a -> a` handy in the > >>>> past. > >>>> Then again, it's pretty trivial to open-code this when needed. > >>>> > >>>> Cheers, > >>>> > >>>> - Ben > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>>> Groups "haskell-core-libraries" group. > >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > >>>> an email to haskell-core-libraries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> -Andrew Thaddeus Martin > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> 山本悠滋 > >> twitter: @igrep > >> GitHub: https://github.com/igrep > >> GitLab: https://gitlab.com/igrep > >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/igrep > >> Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+YujiYamamoto_igrep > > > > > > > > -- > > 山本悠滋 > > twitter: @igrep > > GitHub: https://github.com/igrep > > GitLab: https://gitlab.com/igrep > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/igrep > > Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+YujiYamamoto_igrep > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ghc-devs mailing list > > ghc-devs@haskell.org > > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > > -- 山本悠滋 twitter: @igrep GitHub: https://github.com/igrep GitLab: https://gitlab.com/igrep Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/igrep Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+YujiYamamoto_igrep
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