Pretty printing with lazy dequeues

Chitil, Olaf (2005) Pretty printing with lazy dequeues. Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 27 (1). pp. 163-184. ISSN 0164-0925. (Full text available)

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Abstract

There are several purely functional libraries for converting tree structured data into indented text, but they all make use of some backtracking. Over twenty years ago, Oppen published a more efficient imperative implementation of a pretty printer. This article shows that the same efficiency is also obtainable without destructive updates by developing a similar but purely functional Haskell implementation with the same complexity bounds. At its heart lie two lazy double ended queues.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled keywords:	Algorithms, Haskell, lazy functional programming
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 18:03
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2011 01:30
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14377 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)