A Prettier Printer (1998) [15 citations — 0 self]
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Philip Wadler
Journal of Functional Programming
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Wadler98aprettier,
author = {Philip Wadler},
title = {A Prettier Printer},
booktitle = {Journal of Functional Programming},
year = {1998},
pages = {223--244},
publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}
}
author = {Philip Wadler},
title = {A Prettier Printer},
booktitle = {Journal of Functional Programming},
year = {1998},
pages = {223--244},
publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}
}
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John Hughes has made pretty printers one of the prime demonstrations of using combinators to develop a library, and algebra to implement it. This note presents a new design for pretty printers which improves on Hughes's classic design. The new design is based on a single concatenation operator which is associative and has a left and right unit. Hughes's design requires two separate operators for concatenation, where horizontal concatenation has a right unit but no left unit, and vertical concatenation has neither unit.
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| 67 | The Design of a Pretty-printing Library – Hughes - 1995 |
| 14 | Prettyprinting – Oppen - 1980 |
| 2 | Haskell pretty-printer library. Available at http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj – Jones, L - 1997 |
