PPRINT-INDENT rounding implementation decisions

Bug #309081 reported by Nikodemus Siivola
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
SBCL
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

  At present, pprint-indent (and indeed the whole pretty printer)
  more-or-less assumes that it's using a monospace font. That's
  probably not too silly an assumption, but one piece of information
  the current implementation loses is from requests to indent by a
  non-integral amount. As of sbcl-0.8.15.9, the system silently
  truncates the indentation to an integer at the point of request, but
  maybe the non-integral value should be propagated through the
  pprinter and only truncated at output? (So that indenting by 1/2
  then 3/2 would indent by two spaces, not one?)

Tags: printer
Changed in sbcl:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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