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Formatting Scheme Code

Problem

You have some Scheme code (or any S-Expression) that you want to format readably

Solution

pretty-print in mzlib is an easy way to do this. Here's what it does with a function definition that has no newlines or indentation: 
> (require (lib "pretty.ss"))
> (pretty-print '(define string-pad-center (opt-lambda (a-string width (pad-char #\space)) (let* ((field-width (min width (string-length a-string))) (rmargin (floor (/ (- width field-width) 2)))) (string-pad (string-pad-right a-string (- width rmargin) pad-char) width pad-char)))))
(define string-pad-center
  (opt-lambda
    (a-string width (pad-char #\space))
    (let* ((field-width (min width (string-length a-string)))
           (rmargin (floor (/ (- width field-width) 2))))
      (string-pad
        (string-pad-right a-string (- width rmargin) pad-char)
        width
        pad-char))))

Discussion

pretty-print takes an optional second argument which is a port that the output should be printed to. pretty-print also has a number of options to control formatting. pretty-print-columns is used to set the column width for formatting, when called without arguments, it returns the current setting. pretty-print-depth is used to control how deeply the printer will inspect the structure. Using the same example as above, 
> (define ugly-def '(define string-pad-center (opt-lambda (a-string width (pad-char #\space)) (let* ((field-width (min width (string-length a-string))) (rmargin (floor (/ (- width field-width) 2)))) (string-pad (string-pad-right a-string (- width rmargin) pad-char) width pad-char)))))
> (pretty-print-depth 0)      
> (pretty-print ugly-def)
(...)
> (pretty-print-depth 1)      
> (pretty-print ugly-def)
(define string-pad-center (...))
> (pretty-print-depth 2)      
> (pretty-print ugly-def)
(define string-pad-center (opt-lambda (...) (...)))

-- GordonWeakliem - 26 Apr 2004

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Current Rev: r1.3 - 09 Jun 2004 - 15:42 GMT - NoelWelsh, Revision History:Diffs | r1.3 | > | r1.2 | > | r1.1
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