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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Programmable pretty-printers?
Message-ID: <944@petsd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Feb-87 13:08:43 EST
Article-I.D.: petsd.944
Posted: Tue Feb 17 13:08:43 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Feb-87 20:29:22 EST
References: <1704@enea.UUCP> <4299@utah-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: cjh@petsd.UUCP (C. J. Henrich)
Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls, N.J.
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Summary: A reference

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In article <4299@utah-cs.UUCP> shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs) writes:
>In article <1704@enea.UUCP> sommar@enea.UUCP(Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>
>>A programmable pretty-printer (PPP) is an idea that's been in my head for a 
>>while and I have been thinking that I should write one if I ever get the
>>time.
>
>This isn't a reference to a particular program, but Dick Waters' paper
>"User Format Control in a LISP Prettyprinter" in the Oct 1983 TOPLAS
>(vol. 5, no. 4) is about how to do it in a Lisp context (although the
>idea could be applied to other languages).  The main idea is to decouple
>formatting from printing and run each as a sort of coroutine.  

See also a paper by Derek C. Oppen, "Prettyprinting", in Transactions
on Programming Languages and Systems, October 1980.


Regards,
Chris

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