| Copyright | (c) The University of Glasgow 2001 |
|---|---|
| License | BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE) |
| Maintainer | libraries@haskell.org |
| Stability | provisional |
| Portability | portable |
| Safe Haskell | Safe |
| Language | Haskell2010 |
Text.Show
Description
Converting values to readable strings:
the Show class and associated functions.
Synopsis
Documentation
Conversion of values to readable String s.
Derived instances of Show have the following properties, which
are compatible with derived instances of Read :
- The result of
showis a syntactically correct Haskell expression containing only constants, given the fixity declarations in force at the point where the type is declared. It contains only the constructor names defined in the data type, parentheses, and spaces. When labelled constructor fields are used, braces, commas, field names, and equal signs are also used. - If the constructor is defined to be an infix operator, then
showsPrecwill produce infix applications of the constructor. - the representation will be enclosed in parentheses if the
precedence of the top-level constructor in
xis less thand(associativity is ignored). Thus, ifdis0then the result is never surrounded in parentheses; ifdis11it is always surrounded in parentheses, unless it is an atomic expression. - If the constructor is defined using record syntax, then
showwill produce the record-syntax form, with the fields given in the same order as the original declaration.
For example, given the declarations
infixr 5 :^: data Tree a = Leaf a | Tree a :^: Tree a
the derived instance of Show is equivalent to
instance (Show a) => Show (Tree a) where showsPrec d (Leaf m) = showParen (d > app_prec) $ showString "Leaf " . showsPrec (app_prec+1) m where app_prec = 10 showsPrec d (u :^: v) = showParen (d > up_prec) $ showsPrec (up_prec+1) u . showString " :^: " . showsPrec (up_prec+1) v where up_prec = 5
Note that right-associativity of :^: is ignored. For example,
show(Leaf 1 :^: Leaf 2 :^: Leaf 3)"Leaf 1 :^: (Leaf 2 :^: Leaf 3)".
Methods
showsPrec :: Int -> a -> ShowS Source #
Convert a value to a readable String .
showsPrec should satisfy the law
showsPrec d x r ++ s == showsPrec d x (r ++ s)
Derived instances of Read and Show satisfy the following:
That is, readsPrec parses the string produced by
showsPrec , and delivers the value that showsPrec started with.
Instances
This instance would be equivalent to the derived instances of the
Identity newtype if the runIdentity field were removed
This instance would be equivalent to the derived instances of the
Const newtype if the runConst field were removed
showChar :: Char -> ShowS Source #
utility function converting a Char to a show function that
simply prepends the character unchanged.
showString :: String -> ShowS Source #
utility function converting a String to a show function that
simply prepends the string unchanged.
showListWith :: (a -> ShowS) -> [a] -> ShowS Source #
Show a list (using square brackets and commas), given a function for showing elements.