Re: [Chicken-users] pretty-printer for CPS code needed

[felix winkelmann]

On 5/29/07, Ivan Raikov <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Felix,
>
>    Have you read the paper _Strictly Pretty_ by Christian Lindig?  A
> while ago, I used the algorithm it describes to solve a similar
> problem. Well, it took some effort to get my pretty printer to work as
> I wanted it, but I did manage to get it break the lines in a readable
> manner. The paper is here:
>
> http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/~lindig/papers/pretty/strictly-pretty.pdf

Thanks for the link - I'll check this out.

>    I also ported the Standard ML code in the paper to Scheme, with the
> intention of packaging it as an egg, but never got around to it. So
> here is my (very untested) Scheme implementation, maybe you will find
> it helpful. Since it is a direct port from SML, it relies on the
> datatype egg and pattern matching, but it shouldn't be too much work
> to rewrite the code to not use datatypes.

Well, I need something that prints s-expressions in the usual Scheme
representation (only with a different formatting the reduces the width
of the output). Apart from that the code works quite well.


cheers,
felix