Re: showing Ratios

2010-03-02 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Evan Laforge qdun...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Jon Fairbairn jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatc...@gmail.com writes: Hi, I am not sure about the rationale but if you need a program/library which re-renders Show-able values with more

Re: showing Ratios

2010-03-01 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatc...@gmail.com writes: 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

Re: showing Ratios

2010-02-28 Thread Evan Laforge
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

Re: showing Ratios

2010-02-28 Thread Evan Laforge
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Iavor Diatchki iavor.diatc...@gmail.com wrote: 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

showing Ratios

2010-02-25 Thread Doug McIlroy
Very minor library change to promote readability of output: eliminate spaces in the string representation of Ratios. Currently, a Ratio appears as a pair separated by % . The spaces that flank % make for confusing output. Example: [1 % 2,1 % 3,1 % 4,1 % 5,1 % 6] The spaces suggest that