On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 19:47:16 UTC, linkrope wrote:
On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 07:30:06 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2013-09-30 23:56, bearophile wrote:
Surely Phobos should add a prettyPrinting() function, like
the function
of Python standard library.
I would rather have function that generates a pretty
representation of a given value. Then it either can be used to
print the representation or something else.
How about "%r" in 'format'?
Then for arrays, "%(%s, %)" would in fact be "%(%r, %)" while
"%-(%s, %)" would in fact be "%(%s, %)" - breaking existing
code; punishable by 'xxformat' for at least one year :-)
%r is already taken: It means "raw". It's used as a way to use
formatting, even when writing in a binary file. You can even use
"%+r" and "%-r" to specify the endian-ness you want to write in.
It's fun. Makes writing file headers *real* easy.
