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Add citation to cc.pretty

ust to look extra pretentious.
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Jonathan Coates 2021-04-11 18:43:24 +01:00
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--- Provides a "pretty printer", for rendering data structures in an
-- aesthetically pleasing manner.
--
-- In order to display something using @{cc.pretty}, you build up a series of
-- @{Doc|documents}. These behave a little bit like strings; you can concatenate
-- them together and then print them to the screen.
--
-- However, documents also allow you to control how they should be printed. There
-- are several functions (such as @{nest} and @{group}) which allow you to control
-- the "layout" of the document. When you come to display the document, the 'best'
-- (most compact) layout is used.
--
-- @module cc.pretty
-- @usage Print a table to the terminal
-- local pretty = require "cc.pretty"
-- pretty.print(pretty.pretty({ 1, 2, 3 }))
--
-- @usage Build a custom document and display it
-- local pretty = require "cc.pretty"
-- pretty.print(pretty.group(pretty.text("hello") .. pretty.space_line .. pretty.text("world")))
--[[- Provides a "pretty printer", for rendering data structures in an
aesthetically pleasing manner.
In order to display something using @{cc.pretty}, you build up a series of
@{Doc|documents}. These behave a little bit like strings; you can concatenate
them together and then print them to the screen.
However, documents also allow you to control how they should be printed. There
are several functions (such as @{nest} and @{group}) which allow you to control
the "layout" of the document. When you come to display the document, the 'best'
(most compact) layout is used.
The structure of this module is based on [A Prettier Printer][prettier].
[prettier]: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/prettier/prettier.pdf "A Prettier Printer"
@module cc.pretty
@usage Print a table to the terminal
local pretty = require "cc.pretty"
pretty.print(pretty.pretty({ 1, 2, 3 }))
@usage Build a custom document and display it
local pretty = require "cc.pretty"
pretty.print(pretty.group(pretty.text("hello") .. pretty.space_line .. pretty.text("world")))
]]
local expect = require "cc.expect"
local expect, field = expect.expect, expect.field