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Text.Show
Portabilityportable
Stabilityprovisional
Maintainerlibraries@haskell.org
Description
Converting values to readable strings: the Show class and associated functions.
Synopsis
type ShowS = String -> String
class Show a where
showsPrec :: Int -> a -> ShowS
show :: a -> String
showList :: [a] -> ShowS
shows :: Show a => a -> ShowS
showChar :: Char -> ShowS
showString :: String -> ShowS
showParen :: Bool -> ShowS -> ShowS
showListWith :: (a -> ShowS) -> [a] -> ShowS
Documentation
type ShowS = String -> String
The shows functions return a function that prepends the output String to an existing String. This allows constant-time concatenation of results using function composition.
class Show a where

Conversion of values to readable Strings.

Minimal complete definition: showsPrec or show.

Derived instances of Show have the following properties, which are compatible with derived instances of Text.Read.Read:

  • The result of show is 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 showsPrec will produce infix applications of the constructor.
  • the representation will be enclosed in parentheses if the precedence of the top-level constructor in x is less than d (associativity is ignored). Thus, if d is 0 then the result is never surrounded in parentheses; if d is 11 it is always surrounded in parentheses, unless it is an atomic expression.
  • If the constructor is defined using record syntax, then show will 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) produces the string "Leaf 1 :^: (Leaf 2 :^: Leaf 3)".
Methods
showsPrec
:: Intthe operator precedence of the enclosing context (a number from 0 to 11). Function application has precedence 10.
-> athe value to be converted to a String
-> ShowS
show :: a -> String
showList :: [a] -> ShowS
show/hide Instances
Show Bool
Show Char
Show Double
Show Float
Show Int
Show Int8
Show Int16
Show Int32
Show Int64
Show Integer
Show Ordering
Show Word
Show Word8
Show Word16
Show Word32
Show Word64
Show ()
Show TyCon
Show TypeRep
Show Dynamic
Show Lexeme
Show CChar
Show CSChar
Show CUChar
Show CShort
Show CUShort
Show CInt
Show CUInt
Show CLong
Show CULong
Show CLLong
Show CULLong
Show CFloat
Show CDouble
Show CLDouble
Show CPtrdiff
Show CSize
Show CWchar
Show CSigAtomic
Show CClock
Show CTime
Show CIntPtr
Show CUIntPtr
Show CIntMax
Show CUIntMax
Show IOMode
Show BufferMode
Show ExitCode
Show AsyncException
Show ArrayException
Show ArithException
Show IOErrorType
Show Handle
Show IOException
Show Exception
Show HandleType
Show GeneralCategory
Show HashData
Show IntPtr
Show WordPtr
Show CSsize
Show CCc
Show CSpeed
Show CTcflag
Show CRLim
Show Fd
Show CNlink
Show CUid
Show CGid
Show CDev
Show CIno
Show CMode
Show COff
Show CPid
Show ThreadId
Show SeekMode
Show HandlePosn
Show All
Show Any
Show Version
Show Fixity
Show ConstrRep
Show DataRep
Show DataType
Show Constr
Show a => Show ([] a)
Integral a => Show (Ratio a)
Show (Ptr a)
Show (FunPtr a)
Show a => Show ([::] a)
Show a => Show (Maybe a)
Show (ForeignPtr a)
Show a => Show (Dual a)
Show a => Show (Sum a)
Show a => Show (Product a)
Show a => Show (First a)
Show a => Show (Last a)
HasResolution a => Show (Fixed a)
RealFloat a => Show (Complex a)
Show (a -> b)
(Show a, Show b) => Show (Either a b)
(Show a, Show b) => Show ((,) a b)
Show (ST s a)
(Ix a, Show a, Show b) => Show (Array a b)
(Show a, Show b, Show c) => Show ((,,) a b c)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d) => Show ((,,,) a b c d)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d, Show e) => Show ((,,,,) a b c d e)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d, Show e, Show f) => Show ((,,,,,) a b c d e f)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d, Show e, Show f, Show g) => Show ((,,,,,,) a b c d e f g)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d, Show e, Show f, Show g, Show h) => Show ((,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d, Show e, Show f, Show g, Show h, Show i) => Show ((,,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h i)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d, Show e, Show f, Show g, Show h, Show i, Show j) => Show ((,,,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h i j)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d, Show e, Show f, Show g, Show h, Show i, Show j, Show k) => Show ((,,,,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h i j k)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d, Show e, Show f, Show g, Show h, Show i, Show j, Show k, Show l) => Show ((,,,,,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h i j k l)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d, Show e, Show f, Show g, Show h, Show i, Show j, Show k, Show l, Show m) => Show ((,,,,,,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h i j k l m)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d, Show e, Show f, Show g, Show h, Show i, Show j, Show k, Show l, Show m, Show n) => Show ((,,,,,,,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h i j k l m n)
(Show a, Show b, Show c, Show d, Show e, Show f, Show g, Show h, Show i, Show j, Show k, Show l, Show m, Show n, Show o) => Show ((,,,,,,,,,,,,,,) a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o)
shows :: Show a => a -> ShowS
equivalent to showsPrec with a precedence of 0.
showChar :: Char -> ShowS
utility function converting a Char to a show function that simply prepends the character unchanged.
showString :: String -> ShowS
utility function converting a String to a show function that simply prepends the string unchanged.
showParen :: Bool -> ShowS -> ShowS
utility function that surrounds the inner show function with parentheses when the Bool parameter is True.
showListWith :: (a -> ShowS) -> [a] -> ShowS
Show a list (using square brackets and commas), given a function for showing elements.
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