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Parsing & pretty-printing with Prisms: github.com/robrix/Madness This is shaping up really nicely so far.

It’s going to be tricky to recover indices (necessary for error reporting), but hot damn is it going to be good.

If this works out the way I hope, I may never implement Printable again without it.

why do we have to implement printable rob can't we just write a script intellij, man

Why should we even have to do that much? Did you know that dependent types give you metaprogramming?

I mean that’s sort of implied

I propose processing procedures producing programmatic pretty-printer/parser Prisms.

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Oh. I thought you were talking about implementing Printable just in general, like in typical usage.

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Oh, I was. Because when I’m not alliterating I have to do a lot of shit work to placate computers.

rather than doing all this stuff the lang doesn't love doing, only to end up with exotic code, we could gen easy code and move on 😕

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