'pp' for D?

[linkrope]

On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 07:30:06 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-09-30 23:56, bearophile wrote:
>
>> Surely Phobos should add a prettyPrinting() function, like the 
>> function
>> of Python standard library.
>
> I would rather have function that generates a pretty 
> representation of a given value. Then it either can be used to 
> print the representation or something else.

How about "%r" in 'format'?

Then for arrays, "%(%s, %)" would in fact be "%(%r, %)" while 
"%-(%s, %)" would in fact be "%(%s, %)" - breaking existing code; 
punishable by 'xxformat' for at least one year :-)