📝Pretty-Printing

• I believe all pretty-printing algorithms are generic and can layout anything (that has fixed width) on any mostly fixed-width unbound height medium.

  • Pretty-printing can be used to layout widgets in Projectional Editors

• A prettier printer — Philip Wadler #paper

  • Beware that this algorithm exploits laziness of Haskell. Implementing it in a strict language leads to exponentially growing complexity. For strict languages, see [ Strictly Pretty #paper | from Pretty-Printing]

• Wadler/Leijen Pretty Printer

  • extension of Wadler’s one

• wl-pprint-extras: A free monad based on the Wadler/Leijen pretty printer

  • further extension of the Leijen one

• ansi-wl-pprint: The Wadler/Leijen Pretty Printer for colored ANSI terminal output

• prettyprinter: A modern, easy to use, well-documented, extensible pretty-printer.

• Pretty Printing — Helmut Brandl #paper

  • pretty-printing in strict language. Wadler semantics

• Strictly Pretty #paper

  • another strict pretty-printer in OCaml

  • This one is easier to follow and it seems to be one used in [prettier/prettier-printer | from Pretty-Printing]

• PPrint: A Universal Pretty-Printer

  • A general pretty-printing library in Racket

• Not JP’s Blog - Towards The Prettiest Printer

• prettier/prettier-printer

  • early version of the prettier seems to be inspired by Wadler and has some additional features.

• Compact, Streaming Pretty-Printing of Hierarchical Data: a Pretty-Printing algorithm by Haoyi used in scala’s PPrint: http://www.lihaoyi.com/PPrint/

  • Might be not robust enough for pretty-printing code (but good enough for printing data). Also, nice ideas on making pretty-printer streaming.

Backlinks

• 📝 Pretty-printing can be used to layout widgets in Projectional Editors
• 📝 molikto/medit