prettyprintv.
/ˈprɪtɪˌprɪnt/, U.S. /ˈprɪdiˌprɪnt/ Computing.
transitive. To print (a program or other text) in a format which displays its structure, usually by the use of spacing and indentation.
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1975 H. F. Ledgard Programming Proverbs iv. 99 It is unfortunate that programs in some languages like fortran and basic are seldom prettyprinted.
1985 Personal Computer World Feb. 164/3 It takes a function (or whatever) as its argument and ‘prettyprints’ it onto the console.
1998 EXE (Nexis) 2 Mar. Basically, all of my code fragments are ‘pretty printed’.
Derivatives
ˈprettyˌprinted adj.
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1975 H. F. Ledgard Programming Proverbs ii. 42 The gain in clarity of the prettyprinted versions is unquestionable.
2002 ACM Trans. Programming Lang. & Syst. 24 193 In all, our good-state invariant involved the definition of 32 functions and predicates, consuming a total of 565 lines of pretty-printed ACL2.
ˈprettyˌprinting n.
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1975 H. F. Ledgard Programming Proverbs ii. 42 The spacing of programs to illuminate their logical structure is known as ‘prettyprinting’.
2000 Computing Canada (Nexis) 18 Aug. 28 The software also features built-in access to script engines and a script editor which supports code colouring and pretty printing.
ˈprettyˌprinter n. a program for producing prettyprinted text.
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1980 ACM Trans. Programming Lang. & Syst. 2 465 A prettyprinter takes as input a stream of characters and prints them with aesthetically appropriate indentations and line breaks.
2004 Software Practice & Experience 34 797 The pretty-printer and TEX generator help users by allowing equations to be specified (and read) in their natural form.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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