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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>prettyprint</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="pretty-pictures.html" title="pretty pictures"/><link rel="next" href="pretzel-key.html" title="pretzel key"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">prettyprint</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pretty-pictures.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pretzel-key.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="prettyprint"/><dt xmlns="" id="prettyprint"><b>prettyprint</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/prit´ee·print/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (alt.: <span class="firstterm">pretty-print</span>)</p></dd><dd><p> 1. To generate &#8216;pretty&#8217; human-readable output from a
<a href="../H/hairy.html"><i class="glossterm">hairy</i></a> internal representation; esp. used for the
process of <a href="../G/grind.html"><i class="glossterm">grind</i></a>ing (sense 1) program code, and most
esp. for LISP code.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. To format in some particularly slick and nontrivial way.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pretty-pictures.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pretzel-key.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">pretty pictures </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> pretzel key</td></tr></table></div></body></html>