Re: [Chicken-users] pretty-print

[Graham Fawcett]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Daishi Kato <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is more like a general scheme or lisp question,
> but does anybody know how I can get a formal rule
> for pretty print?
>
> I want to implement pretty print in non-scheme
> programming language.

Not Scheme at all, but you might enjoy these:

Philip Wadler, "A prettier printer".
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/prettier/prettier.pdf

The Design of a Pretty-printing Library  in Advanced Functional
Programming, Johan Jeuring and Erik Meijer (eds), LNCS 925
http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/pretty.ps

Best,
Graham