Pretty Printing with Delimited Continuations Report 4-06

Chitil, Olaf (2006) Pretty Printing with Delimited Continuations Report 4-06. Technical report. University of Kent

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Abstract

Pretty printing is the task of nicely formatting tree structured data within a given line width limit. In 1980 Oppen published a pretty printing algorithm that takes time linear in the size of the input, independent of the line width, and uses only limited look-ahead. This work inspired the development of a number of purely functional pretty printing libraries in Haskell. Here I present a new functional pretty printing algorithm that has all the nice properties of Oppen's and is surprisingly simple. A double-ended queue of delimited continuations is the key to addressing all aspects of the problem explicitly.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical report)
Uncontrolled keywords:	Haskell, double-ended queue, least-strict, lazy
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions:	Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing > Theoretical Computing Group
Depositing User:	Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited:	24 Nov 2008 18:04
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2011 01:34
Resource URI:	http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14464 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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