[m-dev.] Contribution: Pretty Printing Library

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-Apr-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Note that because labels are just like nests, the label string
> only gets printed as part of the indentation after newlines, so
> there's no guarantee that a label will be printed if its argument
> doc fits on the line.  Question: is this reasonable behaviour
> (sorry, semantics)?

Yes. 

If you want the label always printed, then you can easily do so:
instead of

	label(Label, Doc)

just use

	Label `<>` label(Label, Doc)

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