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Re: pretty_print bug

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jun 28, 2004
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Pete wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:17:25 -0700, Robert Craig wrote:

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>> It's not my intention to make pretty_print() do all things
>> for all people. I'm just trying to cover simple, common cases,
>> and I'm trying to keep the documentation and the code
>> reasonably short and understandable.
> Absolutely agree, 100%.
>
>> If you want to add
>> a bell or whistle to pretty_print(), you can copy it
>> and edit it to your heart's content.
> Ditto, this is trivial.
>
> However, I do want to stress: Anyone bar Rob making changes to
> Euphoria\include\misc.e\pretty_print() itself I would *STRONGLY*
> discourage. There is nothing like making such a change to your own
> machine and then weeks, months, or years later wondering why the same
> program fails miserably on an apparently identical machine.
>
> Editing a *copy* of that file is, of course, fine.

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Obviously, you didn't want to say it yourself, but I'll do so:  
A very good replacement for preetty_print() is of course your 'ppp.e'.
Pete, I suggest to put it on the User Contributions page.
Also, Derek recently released his 'print.e' (which I haven't tried yet).

Regards,
   Juergen