RE: Programming Term?

[<Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com>]

I have never found anything "pretty" about the style, but I guess we all have our own tastes.

:)

-----Original Message----- From: Alan Houser

"Pretty-print"?

-Alan



On 7/27/16 5:20 PM, Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com wrote:
> One of the biggest drawbacks to being a self-taught programmer (and I'm being generous with the word "programmer" here) is that I am fairly weak when it comes to nomenclature.
>
> Is there a "universally" understood name for the type of indented formatting used to indicate the nesting hierarchy in a file full of marked-up text, such as XML? I'm trying to eliminate the three sentences I would need to describe what I'm talking about.
>
> -Brian H.
>
> --
>

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