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@article{citeulike:828960, abstract = {John Hughes has made pretty printers one of the prime demonstrations of using combinators to develop a library, and algebra to implement it. This note presents a new design for pretty printers which improves on Hughes's classic design. The new design is based on a single concatenation operator which is associative and has a left and right unit. Hughes's design requires two separate operators for concatenation, where horizontal concatenation has a right unit but no left unit, and vertical...}, author = {Wadler, Philip}, citeulike-article-id = {828960}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.19.635}, journal = {Journal of Functional Programming}, keywords = {pretty-printing}, posted-at = {2006-09-05 18:24:52}, priority = {2}, title = {A prettier printer}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.19.635}, year = {1999} }

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