text-display

A typeclass for user-facing output

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-display-0.0.5.0/docs/doc/book/Introduction.html

LTS Haskell 24.16:1.0.0.0
Stackage Nightly 2025-10-24:1.0.0.0
Latest on Hackage:1.0.0.0

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Module documentation for 1.0.0.0

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A Typeclass for user-facing output

The text-display library offers the Display typeclass for developers to print a textual representation of datatypes that does not have to abide by the rules of the Show typeclass.

Documentation

Changes

CHANGELOG

[v1.0.0.0] - 05/01/2024

  • Remove support for GHC 8.10 to 9.0 inclusive
  • text-display is now backed by text-builder-linear
    • Manual instances will need some adjustments
    • As a result of the builder’s strictness properties, lazy evaluation of lists is dropped
    • Derived instances should not require adjustments

[v0.0.5.2] - 07/04/2024

  • Allow GHC 9.6.4 and 9.8.2

[v0.0.5.1] - 04/11/2023

  • Allow bytestring 0.12 (for GHC 9.8) #58

[v0.0.5.0] - 16/05/2023

[v0.0.4.0] - 21/03/2023

v0.0.3.0 - 21/08/2022

This is an experimental release.

  • Support for text-2.0
  • Support for GHC 9.4

v0.0.2.0 – 13/03/2022

This is an experimental release.

v0.0.1.0 – 2/11/2021

This is an experimental release.

  • Initial release