Cabal-1.16.0: A framework for packaging Haskell software

Portabilityportable
Maintainer[email protected]
Safe HaskellSafe-Inferred

Distribution.Text

Description

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 whereSource

Methods

disp :: a -> DocSource

parse :: ReadP r aSource

Instances

display :: Text a => a -> StringSource

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