Re: What is a prettyprinter?

In article <1ehaifINN1tq@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>, jbaker@bluegrass-emh1.army.mil ("John Baker, Blue Grass Army Depot") writes: |> Jack Parker asked Joe Ryburn: |> |> > Just for the rest of us, what is a prettyprinter or a vgrind? |> > Is prettyprinter in the eye of the beholder? |> > is vgrind a new dancefloor thing? |> |> I second his questions. I've never heard of a "prettyprinter" and none of |> our AT&T UNIX manuals have an entry for "vgrind." A prettyprinter is a program which prints a input file in a formatted way. From the man page (sunos) VGRIND(1) USER COMMANDS VGRIND(1) NAME vgrind - grind nice program listings DESCRIPTION vgrind formats the program sources named by the filename arguments in a nice style using troff(1). Comments are placed in italics, keywords in bold face, and as each func- tion is encountered its name is listed on the page margin. -Roger