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show package provides ShowQ, ShowFun and SimpleReflect modules. It is now available in Fedora. Install it using:

 $ sudo yum install ghc-show-devel

To import the ShowQ module (for example), you can use:

Prelude> :m + ShowQ

The ShowFun module provides Typeable instances for IO expressions. The ShowQ module includes SmallCheck and QuickCheck support. Example uses of mysmallcheck, myquickcheck and tests functions in ShowQ are shown below:

Prelude ShowQ> mysmallcheck (\s -> length ("Hello") == 5)
Depth 0:
  Completed 1 test(s) without failure.
Depth 1:
  Completed 1 test(s) without failure.
Depth 2:
  Completed 1 test(s) without failure.
Depth 3:
  Completed 1 test(s) without failure.
Depth 4:
  Completed 1 test(s) without failure.
Depth 5:
  Completed 1 test(s) without failure.
Depth 6:
  Completed 1 test(s) without failure.
()

Prelude ShowQ> myquickcheck (\s -> length ("Hello") == 5)
"+++ OK, passed 100 tests.
OK, passed 100 tests."

Prelude ShowQ> tests (\s -> length("Hello") == 5) 5 [["a"], ["b"]]
+++ OK, passed 100 tests.
"OK, passed 100 tests.1%b.\n1%a.\n"

The SimpleReflect module expands functions literally, and provides simple reflection of Haskell expressions containing variables. Few examples:

Prelude SimpleReflect> foldr f x [1..5]
f 1 (f 2 (f 3 (f 4 (f 5 x))))

Prelude SimpleReflect> sum [1..5] :: Expr
0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5

Prelude SimpleReflect> sum $ map (*x) [1..5]
0 + 1 * x + 2 * x + 3 * x + 4 * x + 5 * x