Re: Little patch to make (ice-9 pretty-print) more flexible

[Matthias Koeppe]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> Matthias Koeppe <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The new procedure PRETTY-PRINT-WITH-OPTIONS allows specifying the
>> line width, a per-line prefix and whether to use WRITE or DISPLAY.
>
> Nice, we should include this.  However, the name
> pretty-print-with-options sounds a bit unfortunate.  Would it make
> sense to extend the original pretty-print to also take the new
> options?  We could make it so that when the second arg is not a
> keyword, we use it as the port to print to.  Like
>
>   (define (pretty-print obj . opts)
>     (if (pair? opts)
>         (if (keyword? (car opts))
>             (apply pretty-print-with-options obj opts)
>             (apply pretty-print-with-options obj #:port (car opts) (cdr 
> opts)))
>         (pretty-print-with-options obj)))
>
> and don't export pretty-print-with-options.

That's fine for me, go ahead.

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