rustc_ast_pretty/
pp.rs

1//! This pretty-printer is a direct reimplementation of Philip Karlton's
2//! Mesa pretty-printer, as described in the appendix to
3//! Derek C. Oppen, "Pretty Printing" (1979),
4//! Stanford Computer Science Department STAN-CS-79-770,
5//! <http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/79/770/CS-TR-79-770.pdf>.
6//!
7//! The algorithm's aim is to break a stream into as few lines as possible
8//! while respecting the indentation-consistency requirements of the enclosing
9//! block, and avoiding breaking at silly places on block boundaries, for
10//! example, between "x" and ")" in "x)".
11//!
12//! I am implementing this algorithm because it comes with 20 pages of
13//! documentation explaining its theory, and because it addresses the set of
14//! concerns I've seen other pretty-printers fall down on. Weirdly. Even though
15//! it's 32 years old. What can I say?
16//!
17//! Despite some redundancies and quirks in the way it's implemented in that
18//! paper, I've opted to keep the implementation here as similar as I can,
19//! changing only what was blatantly wrong, a typo, or sufficiently
20//! non-idiomatic rust that it really stuck out.
21//!
22//! In particular you'll see a certain amount of churn related to INTEGER vs.
23//! CARDINAL in the Mesa implementation. Mesa apparently interconverts the two
24//! somewhat readily? In any case, I've used usize for indices-in-buffers and
25//! ints for character-sizes-and-indentation-offsets. This respects the need
26//! for ints to "go negative" while carrying a pending-calculation balance, and
27//! helps differentiate all the numbers flying around internally (slightly).
28//!
29//! I also inverted the indentation arithmetic used in the print stack, since
30//! the Mesa implementation (somewhat randomly) stores the offset on the print
31//! stack in terms of margin-col rather than col itself. I store col.
32//!
33//! I also implemented a small change in the String token, in that I store an
34//! explicit length for the string. For most tokens this is just the length of
35//! the accompanying string. But it's necessary to permit it to differ, for
36//! encoding things that are supposed to "go on their own line" -- certain
37//! classes of comment and blank-line -- where relying on adjacent
38//! hardbreak-like Break tokens with long blankness indication doesn't actually
39//! work. To see why, consider when there is a "thing that should be on its own
40//! line" between two long blocks, say functions. If you put a hardbreak after
41//! each function (or before each) and the breaking algorithm decides to break
42//! there anyways (because the functions themselves are long) you wind up with
43//! extra blank lines. If you don't put hardbreaks you can wind up with the
44//! "thing which should be on its own line" not getting its own line in the
45//! rare case of "really small functions" or such. This re-occurs with comments
46//! and explicit blank lines. So in those cases we use a string with a payload
47//! we want isolated to a line and an explicit length that's huge, surrounded
48//! by two zero-length breaks. The algorithm will try its best to fit it on a
49//! line (which it can't) and so naturally place the content on its own line to
50//! avoid combining it with other lines and making matters even worse.
51//!
52//! # Explanation
53//!
54//! In case you do not have the paper, here is an explanation of what's going
55//! on.
56//!
57//! There is a stream of input tokens flowing through this printer.
58//!
59//! The printer buffers up to 3N tokens inside itself, where N is linewidth.
60//! Yes, linewidth is chars and tokens are multi-char, but in the worst
61//! case every token worth buffering is 1 char long, so it's ok.
62//!
63//! Tokens are String, Break, and Begin/End to delimit blocks.
64//!
65//! Begin tokens can carry an offset, saying "how far to indent when you break
66//! inside here", as well as a flag indicating "consistent" or "inconsistent"
67//! breaking. Consistent breaking means that after the first break, no attempt
68//! will be made to flow subsequent breaks together onto lines. Inconsistent
69//! is the opposite. Inconsistent breaking example would be, say:
70//!
71//! ```ignore (illustrative)
72//! foo(hello, there, good, friends)
73//! ```
74//!
75//! breaking inconsistently to become
76//!
77//! ```ignore (illustrative)
78//! foo(hello, there,
79//!     good, friends);
80//! ```
81//!
82//! whereas a consistent breaking would yield:
83//!
84//! ```ignore (illustrative)
85//! foo(hello,
86//!     there,
87//!     good,
88//!     friends);
89//! ```
90//!
91//! That is, in the consistent-break blocks we value vertical alignment
92//! more than the ability to cram stuff onto a line. But in all cases if it
93//! can make a block a one-liner, it'll do so.
94//!
95//! Carrying on with high-level logic:
96//!
97//! The buffered tokens go through a ring-buffer, 'tokens'. The 'left' and
98//! 'right' indices denote the active portion of the ring buffer as well as
99//! describing hypothetical points-in-the-infinite-stream at most 3N tokens
100//! apart (i.e., "not wrapped to ring-buffer boundaries"). The paper will switch
101//! between using 'left' and 'right' terms to denote the wrapped-to-ring-buffer
102//! and point-in-infinite-stream senses freely.
103//!
104//! There is a parallel ring buffer, `size`, that holds the calculated size of
105//! each token. Why calculated? Because for Begin/End pairs, the "size"
106//! includes everything between the pair. That is, the "size" of Begin is
107//! actually the sum of the sizes of everything between Begin and the paired
108//! End that follows. Since that is arbitrarily far in the future, `size` is
109//! being rewritten regularly while the printer runs; in fact most of the
110//! machinery is here to work out `size` entries on the fly (and give up when
111//! they're so obviously over-long that "infinity" is a good enough
112//! approximation for purposes of line breaking).
113//!
114//! The "input side" of the printer is managed as an abstract process called
115//! SCAN, which uses `scan_stack`, to manage calculating `size`. SCAN is, in
116//! other words, the process of calculating 'size' entries.
117//!
118//! The "output side" of the printer is managed by an abstract process called
119//! PRINT, which uses `print_stack`, `margin` and `space` to figure out what to
120//! do with each token/size pair it consumes as it goes. It's trying to consume
121//! the entire buffered window, but can't output anything until the size is >=
122//! 0 (sizes are set to negative while they're pending calculation).
123//!
124//! So SCAN takes input and buffers tokens and pending calculations, while
125//! PRINT gobbles up completed calculations and tokens from the buffer. The
126//! theory is that the two can never get more than 3N tokens apart, because
127//! once there's "obviously" too much data to fit on a line, in a size
128//! calculation, SCAN will write "infinity" to the size and let PRINT consume
129//! it.
130//!
131//! In this implementation (following the paper, again) the SCAN process is the
132//! methods called `Printer::scan_*`, and the 'PRINT' process is the
133//! method called `Printer::print`.
134
135mod convenience;
136mod ring;
137
138use std::borrow::Cow;
139use std::collections::VecDeque;
140use std::{cmp, iter};
141
142use ring::RingBuffer;
143
144/// How to break. Described in more detail in the module docs.
145#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
146pub enum Breaks {
147    Consistent,
148    Inconsistent,
149}
150
151#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
152enum IndentStyle {
153    /// Vertically aligned under whatever column this block begins at.
154    ///
155    ///     fn demo(arg1: usize,
156    ///             arg2: usize) {}
157    Visual,
158    /// Indented relative to the indentation level of the previous line.
159    ///
160    ///     fn demo(
161    ///         arg1: usize,
162    ///         arg2: usize,
163    ///     ) {}
164    Block { offset: isize },
165}
166
167#[derive(Clone, Copy, Default, PartialEq)]
168pub(crate) struct BreakToken {
169    offset: isize,
170    blank_space: isize,
171    pre_break: Option<char>,
172}
173
174#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
175pub(crate) struct BeginToken {
176    indent: IndentStyle,
177    breaks: Breaks,
178}
179
180#[derive(PartialEq)]
181pub(crate) enum Token {
182    // In practice a string token contains either a `&'static str` or a
183    // `String`. `Cow` is overkill for this because we never modify the data,
184    // but it's more convenient than rolling our own more specialized type.
185    String(Cow<'static, str>),
186    Break(BreakToken),
187    Begin(BeginToken),
188    End,
189}
190
191#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
192enum PrintFrame {
193    Fits,
194    Broken { indent: usize, breaks: Breaks },
195}
196
197const SIZE_INFINITY: isize = 0xffff;
198
199/// Target line width.
200const MARGIN: isize = 78;
201/// Every line is allowed at least this much space, even if highly indented.
202const MIN_SPACE: isize = 60;
203
204pub struct Printer {
205    out: String,
206    /// Number of spaces left on line
207    space: isize,
208    /// Ring-buffer of tokens and calculated sizes
209    buf: RingBuffer<BufEntry>,
210    /// Running size of stream "...left"
211    left_total: isize,
212    /// Running size of stream "...right"
213    right_total: isize,
214    /// Pseudo-stack, really a ring too. Holds the
215    /// primary-ring-buffers index of the Begin that started the
216    /// current block, possibly with the most recent Break after that
217    /// Begin (if there is any) on top of it. Stuff is flushed off the
218    /// bottom as it becomes irrelevant due to the primary ring-buffer
219    /// advancing.
220    scan_stack: VecDeque<usize>,
221    /// Stack of blocks-in-progress being flushed by print
222    print_stack: Vec<PrintFrame>,
223    /// Level of indentation of current line
224    indent: usize,
225    /// Buffered indentation to avoid writing trailing whitespace
226    pending_indentation: isize,
227    /// The token most recently popped from the left boundary of the
228    /// ring-buffer for printing
229    last_printed: Option<Token>,
230}
231
232struct BufEntry {
233    token: Token,
234    size: isize,
235}
236
237impl Printer {
238    pub fn new() -> Self {
239        Printer {
240            out: String::new(),
241            space: MARGIN,
242            buf: RingBuffer::new(),
243            left_total: 0,
244            right_total: 0,
245            scan_stack: VecDeque::new(),
246            print_stack: Vec::new(),
247            indent: 0,
248            pending_indentation: 0,
249            last_printed: None,
250        }
251    }
252
253    pub(crate) fn last_token(&self) -> Option<&Token> {
254        self.last_token_still_buffered().or_else(|| self.last_printed.as_ref())
255    }
256
257    pub(crate) fn last_token_still_buffered(&self) -> Option<&Token> {
258        self.buf.last().map(|last| &last.token)
259    }
260
261    /// Be very careful with this!
262    pub(crate) fn replace_last_token_still_buffered(&mut self, token: Token) {
263        self.buf.last_mut().unwrap().token = token;
264    }
265
266    fn scan_eof(&mut self) {
267        if !self.scan_stack.is_empty() {
268            self.check_stack(0);
269            self.advance_left();
270        }
271    }
272
273    fn scan_begin(&mut self, token: BeginToken) {
274        if self.scan_stack.is_empty() {
275            self.left_total = 1;
276            self.right_total = 1;
277            self.buf.clear();
278        }
279        let right = self.buf.push(BufEntry { token: Token::Begin(token), size: -self.right_total });
280        self.scan_stack.push_back(right);
281    }
282
283    fn scan_end(&mut self) {
284        if self.scan_stack.is_empty() {
285            self.print_end();
286        } else {
287            let right = self.buf.push(BufEntry { token: Token::End, size: -1 });
288            self.scan_stack.push_back(right);
289        }
290    }
291
292    fn scan_break(&mut self, token: BreakToken) {
293        if self.scan_stack.is_empty() {
294            self.left_total = 1;
295            self.right_total = 1;
296            self.buf.clear();
297        } else {
298            self.check_stack(0);
299        }
300        let right = self.buf.push(BufEntry { token: Token::Break(token), size: -self.right_total });
301        self.scan_stack.push_back(right);
302        self.right_total += token.blank_space;
303    }
304
305    fn scan_string(&mut self, string: Cow<'static, str>) {
306        if self.scan_stack.is_empty() {
307            self.print_string(&string);
308        } else {
309            let len = string.len() as isize;
310            self.buf.push(BufEntry { token: Token::String(string), size: len });
311            self.right_total += len;
312            self.check_stream();
313        }
314    }
315
316    pub(crate) fn offset(&mut self, offset: isize) {
317        if let Some(BufEntry { token: Token::Break(token), .. }) = &mut self.buf.last_mut() {
318            token.offset += offset;
319        }
320    }
321
322    fn check_stream(&mut self) {
323        while self.right_total - self.left_total > self.space {
324            if *self.scan_stack.front().unwrap() == self.buf.index_of_first() {
325                self.scan_stack.pop_front().unwrap();
326                self.buf.first_mut().unwrap().size = SIZE_INFINITY;
327            }
328            self.advance_left();
329            if self.buf.is_empty() {
330                break;
331            }
332        }
333    }
334
335    fn advance_left(&mut self) {
336        while self.buf.first().unwrap().size >= 0 {
337            let left = self.buf.pop_first().unwrap();
338
339            match &left.token {
340                Token::String(string) => {
341                    self.left_total += string.len() as isize;
342                    self.print_string(string);
343                }
344                Token::Break(token) => {
345                    self.left_total += token.blank_space;
346                    self.print_break(*token, left.size);
347                }
348                Token::Begin(token) => self.print_begin(*token, left.size),
349                Token::End => self.print_end(),
350            }
351
352            self.last_printed = Some(left.token);
353
354            if self.buf.is_empty() {
355                break;
356            }
357        }
358    }
359
360    fn check_stack(&mut self, mut depth: usize) {
361        while let Some(&index) = self.scan_stack.back() {
362            let entry = &mut self.buf[index];
363            match entry.token {
364                Token::Begin(_) => {
365                    if depth == 0 {
366                        break;
367                    }
368                    self.scan_stack.pop_back().unwrap();
369                    entry.size += self.right_total;
370                    depth -= 1;
371                }
372                Token::End => {
373                    // paper says + not =, but that makes no sense.
374                    self.scan_stack.pop_back().unwrap();
375                    entry.size = 1;
376                    depth += 1;
377                }
378                _ => {
379                    self.scan_stack.pop_back().unwrap();
380                    entry.size += self.right_total;
381                    if depth == 0 {
382                        break;
383                    }
384                }
385            }
386        }
387    }
388
389    fn get_top(&self) -> PrintFrame {
390        *self
391            .print_stack
392            .last()
393            .unwrap_or(&PrintFrame::Broken { indent: 0, breaks: Breaks::Inconsistent })
394    }
395
396    fn print_begin(&mut self, token: BeginToken, size: isize) {
397        if size > self.space {
398            self.print_stack.push(PrintFrame::Broken { indent: self.indent, breaks: token.breaks });
399            self.indent = match token.indent {
400                IndentStyle::Block { offset } => {
401                    usize::try_from(self.indent as isize + offset).unwrap()
402                }
403                IndentStyle::Visual => (MARGIN - self.space) as usize,
404            };
405        } else {
406            self.print_stack.push(PrintFrame::Fits);
407        }
408    }
409
410    fn print_end(&mut self) {
411        if let PrintFrame::Broken { indent, .. } = self.print_stack.pop().unwrap() {
412            self.indent = indent;
413        }
414    }
415
416    fn print_break(&mut self, token: BreakToken, size: isize) {
417        let fits = match self.get_top() {
418            PrintFrame::Fits => true,
419            PrintFrame::Broken { breaks: Breaks::Consistent, .. } => false,
420            PrintFrame::Broken { breaks: Breaks::Inconsistent, .. } => size <= self.space,
421        };
422        if fits {
423            self.pending_indentation += token.blank_space;
424            self.space -= token.blank_space;
425        } else {
426            if let Some(pre_break) = token.pre_break {
427                self.out.push(pre_break);
428            }
429            self.out.push('\n');
430            let indent = self.indent as isize + token.offset;
431            self.pending_indentation = indent;
432            self.space = cmp::max(MARGIN - indent, MIN_SPACE);
433        }
434    }
435
436    fn print_string(&mut self, string: &str) {
437        // Write the pending indent. A more concise way of doing this would be:
438        //
439        //   write!(self.out, "{: >n$}", "", n = self.pending_indentation as usize)?;
440        //
441        // But that is significantly slower. This code is sufficiently hot, and indents can get
442        // sufficiently large, that the difference is significant on some workloads.
443        self.out.reserve(self.pending_indentation as usize);
444        self.out.extend(iter::repeat(' ').take(self.pending_indentation as usize));
445        self.pending_indentation = 0;
446
447        self.out.push_str(string);
448        self.space -= string.len() as isize;
449    }
450}