SLE 2016 paper:
Towards a Universal Code Formatter through Machine Learning

Terence Parr, Jurgen Vinju

🏆 Distinguished Paper Award
DOI: 10.1145/2997364.2997383
T4G: AI-for-SLE
- The key technique is machine learning applied to infer formatting rules for languages.
T4B: Horizontal Transformation
- Formatting is a source-to-source transformation that rewrites code while preserving meaning.
T5H: Usability
- A main motivation is improving readability and user-specific formatting preferences (usability).
T3D: GPLs
- The formatter targets general-purpose programming languages and their concrete syntax.

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