It's possible for an infinite print to be just fine, it's a streaming API after all, consider invoking a clojure program in the middle of some unix pipes.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Phillip Lord <phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk>wrote: > > Of course, in this circumstances, infinitely long lists are not going to > behave well either. > > But, it seems to me, that this is (or should be) independent of > interactive use in the REPL. The current behaviour is never nice. > Probably, there needs to be a *interactive-print-length* var or > equivalent. > > Andy Fingerhut <andy.finger...@gmail.com> writes: > > > 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. 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