FuelLabs/sway

Pretty print the AST from sway-core

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#2,487 opened on Aug 9, 2022

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Description

It would be nice if we could implement a pretty printer for the AST produced from sway-core.

Currently, it's pretty hard to read when using a println! on the return AST in rust. Alex mentioned he had used the ptree crate before. Perhaps it might be worth also looking at leveraging this crate for pretty printing.

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Research direction
Explore the ptree crate to implement pretty printing for sway core's AST. Understand the AST structs and implement Display or use ptree's printing methods.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
developer experiencetooling
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Feature
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3
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Half day
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Fresh
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Clear
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Rust
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60