'pp' for D?

[monarch_dodra]

On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 19:47:16 UTC, linkrope wrote:
> 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 :-)

%r is already taken: It means "raw". It's used as a way to use 
formatting, even when writing in a binary file. You can even use 
"%+r" and "%-r" to specify the endian-ness you want to write in. 
It's fun. Makes writing file headers *real* easy.