[Openmcl-devel] pretty printing

[Philippe Sismondi]

On 2009-11-18, at 4:01 AM, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:

> Philippe Sismondi <psismondi at arqux.com> writes:
>
>> Should I expect ccl to pretty-print when *print-pretty* is set to T?
>>
>> I am new to CL, so what I did was to type in the example in  
>> Hyperspec:
>>
>> (let ((*print-pretty* t))
>>   (progn (write '(let ((a 1) (b 2) (c 3)) (+ a b c))) nil))
>>
>>>> (LET ((A 1)
>>>>       (B 2)
>>>>       (C 3))
>>>>   (+ A B C))
>> =>  NIL
>>
>> I don't get any indentation when I type that example into ccl. The
>> example just gets printed on one line of output, no indentation.
>>
>> Am I supposed to do some additional thing to get the output shown?
>> Additional parameters, or fiddle with dispatch tables?
>
> I have patches for SBCL's pretty printer which emit a mandatory  
> instead
> of a linear newline after each of LET's clauses -- among other goodies
> like pretty-printing LOOP forms sanely. They should not be difficult  
> to
> adapt for CCL if you're interested.
>
>  -T.
>
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I am interested, thank you. Let me know how to avail myself of the  
patches please.

  - P. -