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prettyprint: /prit´ee·print/, v.

(alt.: pretty-print)

1. To generate ‘pretty’ human-readable output from a hairy internal representation; esp. used for the process of grinding (sense 1) program code, and most esp. for LISP code.

2. To format in some particularly slick and nontrivial way.


 
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