Distribution.Text

This defines a Text class which is a bit like the Read and Show classes. The difference is that is uses a modern pretty printer and parser system and the format is not expected to be Haskell concrete syntax but rather the external human readable representation used by Cabal.

Documentation

class Text a where

Methods

disp :: a -> Doc

parse :: ReadP r a

Instances

Text Bool

Text Version

Text ModuleName

Text Platform

Text Arch

Text OS

Text KnownExtension

Text Extension

Text Language

Text VersionRange

Text License

Text Dependency

Text InstalledPackageId

Text PackageIdentifier

Text PackageName

Text CompilerId

Text CompilerFlavor

Text RepoType

Text RepoKind

Text BenchmarkType

Text TestType

Text BuildType

Text TestShowDetails

display :: Text a => a -> String

simpleParse :: Text a => String -> Maybe a