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i don't think we want to overload 2-arg show here, only the 3-arg plain-text method below.

The reason is that we probably want repr to return parseable code that recreates a NaiveLMMMOKernel (other kernels in this package seem to have overloaded 2-arg show to have non-parseable "pretty printing" output, which also seems a mistake to me)

And 3-arg show is what gets used in the repl, so probably all you want for pretty-printing.

(But my opinion here might be at adds with the currect practices of the package, so we can move this discussion to an issue if that's better)

Originally posted by @nickrobinson251 in https://github.com/JuliaGaussianProcesses/KernelFunctions.jl/pull/304#discussion_r655375183

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Start by reviewing the show/repr implementations for NaiveLMMMOKernel and the discussion in PR #304. Compare the 2-argument and 3-argument methods with related kernels, then confirm that pretty-printing remains available while repr produces parseable code; the issue does not name a test file.

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