One argument for default value of *print-length* being nil: Plenty of people print Clojure data structures to files and later read them back in. The data would be corrupted if *print-length* was a too-small numeric value for your particular data. It might not be obvious until much later that you have lost data.
Andy On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Andreas Liljeqvist <bon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any good reason for not providing a default value for > *print-length*? > I think that if you *really* want to print a list containing 100K items, > you would have to set *print-length*. > > Basically it seems less harmful to set it to a nice value by default(42?) > than possible locking up the REPL. > > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Gary Trakhman <gary.trakh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/*print-length* >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Christopher Howard <cmhowa...@alaska.edu >> > wrote: >> >>> Is there some kind of "safe" function for printing representations of >>> lazy, infinite data structures? I'm finding I like using them inside >>> other data structures here and there. However, when I go to play >>> around with things in the REPL, sooner or later my workflow is >>> interrupted by 3 million characters streaming across the console. >>> >>> I don't imagine there would be any way for the REPL to detect that a >>> lazy sequence was infinite. However, if it would simply refuse to >>> evaluate lazy sequence (say, represent them by some special identifier) >>> that >>> would be good enough for me. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >>> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >>> your first post. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
