On Nov 18, 1:12 pm, Chouser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Your implementation needs to get the whole value of pr-str before
> > deciding that it is too long to put on a single line.
>
> That's certainly what it does, but I don't think it has to. My plan
> was to use *print-length* and *print-level* to cause pr-str to bail
> out if it's getting too long. I can't decide if this general approach
> is an ugly hack or an elegant re-use of existing code.
>
> > But then, your implementation actually works and doesn't run out of
> > stack space on short lists. :-)
>
> I wanted to post what I had right away, but I will now take the time
> to understand your code, so I can come up with own opinion about how
> we ought to proceed.
>
> --Chouser
Thanks. I definitely recommend the original paper --
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/prettier/prettier.pdf --
even if you don't know Haskell. It's short and to the point.
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