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Linear, bounded, functional pretty-printing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2009

S. DOAITSE SWIERSTRA  and
OLAF CHITIL
S. DOAITSE SWIERSTRA
Affiliation:
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
OLAF CHITIL
Affiliation:
University of Kent, UK
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Abstract

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We present two implementations of Oppen's pretty-printing algorithm in Haskell that meet the efficiency of Oppen's imperative solution but have a simpler and a clear structure. We start with an implementation that uses lazy evaluation to simulate two co-operating processes. Then we present an implementation that uses higher-order functions for delimited continuations to simulate co-routines with explicit scheduling.

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Functional Pearls
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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 1 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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