ShowLines.hs

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--  Module      :  ShowLines
--  Copyright   :  (c) 2003, Graham Klyne, 2009 Vasili I Galchin, 2011, 2012 Douglas Burke
--  License     :  GPL V2
--
--  Maintainer  :  Douglas Burke
--  Stability   :  experimental
--  Portability :  H98
--
--  This module defines an extension of the 'Show' class for displaying
--  multi-line values.  It serves the following purposes:
--
--  (1) provides a method with greater layout control of multiline values,
--
--  (2) provides a possibility to override the default 'Show' behaviour
--      for programs that use the extended 'ShowLines' interface, and
--
--  (3) uses a 'ShowS' intermediate value to avoid unnecessary
--      concatenation of long strings.
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module Data.String.ShowLines (ShowLines(..)) where

-- |ShowLines is a type class for values that may be formatted in
--  multi-line displays.
class (Show sh) => ShowLines sh where
    -- |Multi-line value display method
    --
    --  Create a multiline displayable form of a value, returned
    --  as a 'ShowS' value.  The default implementation behaves just
    --  like a normal instance of 'Show'.
    --
    --  This function is intended to allow the calling function some control
    --  of multiline displays by providing:
    --
    --  (1) the first line of the value is not preceded by any text, so
    --      it may be appended to some preceding text on the same line,
    --
    --  (2) the supplied line break string is used to separate lines of the
    --      formatted text, and may include any desired indentation, and
    --
    --  (3) no newline is output following the final line of text.
    showls :: String -> sh -> ShowS
    showls _ = shows

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