import { EastTypeValue } from '@elaraai/east';
/**
 * Format a decoded East value into a short human-readable string. The
 * `typeValue` selects formatting:
 * - Primitives get a per-type compact form (e.g. `"42.50"`, `"2025-01-01"`).
 * - Variants render their tag (and a printed inner for non-null cases).
 * - Containers fall through to `printFor(typeValue)(value)`.
 *
 * When `typeValue` is null we have no type to round-trip against — return
 * `"<value>"`.
 */
export declare function formatLeafValue(typeValue: EastTypeValue | null, value: any): string;
/**
 * Pretty-print a TreePath using the same "field: name" / "index: 5" /
 * "key: foo" pattern as the staged-store cache key — but reduced to a
 * bare label suitable for the binding-group header.
 */
export declare function formatBindingLabel(segments: ReadonlyArray<any>): string;
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