Add IsLog type class #24
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JS console functions typically handle logging of certain types in a special manner. For instance, logging Errors also display an accompanying stack trace. Logging dom elements on browsers can also emits a dom tree that can be interactively inspected.
Pointing to purescript-debug might not always suffice, since there are use cases outside of debugging -- for instance logging errors with stack traces on server side purescript.
I've read that there used to be
Any
variants (logAny
,warnAny
) that wereforall a. a -> Effect Unit
, but have been removed.Perhaps aa middleground between accepting anything vs limiting logging only to strings is to simply mark which types make sense to be logged. So I introduced the typeclass
IsLog
here and an instance for String and Array. I'm open to renaming this. (Logging extra long arrays auto truncates the array and offers interactive expanding on browsers)Another option is to keep
log
only for strings, but introducelog'
which accepts others that have anIsLog
instance.