[m-dev.] for review: clean up MLDS init functions

[Ralph Becket]

>From Fergus Henderson on 09/11/2000 04:16:10
> Hmm, could you be more specific?
> 
> Using the pretty-printing library would help us format the output
> to some reasonable number of columns.  But I don't think it would
> make much difference to the readability or maintainability of
> mlds_to_c.m itself.  (That module is performing a fairly simple
> task, since the MLDS is already pretty close to C, so I think it
> would be fairly readable and maintainable regardless of how we
> do the output.)

In my experience, when doing a lot of formatted output, it's easier
to see what's going on in the code using pprint rather than line
after line of `io__write_XXX'.

> > Or is that taking a sledgehammer to a walnut?
> 
> Probably.  Anyway last time I looked, the pretty-printing library
> has exponential performance for large outputs.  So we'd need to fix
> that problem first.

No, I fixed that ages ago to use bounded lookahead.  The first
version was indeed exponential, but now it laughs in the face of large
terms.

Ralph

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Ralph Becket      |      MSR Cambridge      |      rbeck at microsoft.com 

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