> I'm nervous about existing inspect abuse as a hacky to_string.

What do you mean?

>  I could see someone using it and feeding the result into a hashing
function and this change would break such an implementation.

Using something like this today is already broken in all kinds of ways that
I am not particularly concerned about it. :)



*José Valim*
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Skype: jv.ptec
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Peter Hamilton <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm nervous about existing inspect abuse as a hacky to_string. I could see
> someone using it and feeding the result into a hashing function and this
> change would break such an implementation.
>
> Being able to turn it off is probably sufficient. Would it make sense to
> turn it off at a global level?
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 9:38 AM José Valim <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I like this proposal. I would even pick it is a default with an option to
>> turn it off. Does anyone else have feedback? :)
>>
>>
>>
>> *José Valim*
>> www.plataformatec.com.br
>> Skype: jv.ptec
>> Founder and Director of R&D
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Wojtek Mach <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> It's very convenient to write down integer literals as e.g. 10_000_000 -
>>> much easier for humans to read.
>>>
>>> I was recently debugging some performance issues and I was working with
>>> this data in iex:
>>>
>>> [memory: 173978912, message_queue_len: 0, heap_size: 12834421,
>>>   total_heap_size: 21747214,
>>>   garbage_collection: [min_bin_vheap_size: 46422, min_heap_size: 233,
>>>    fullsweep_after: 65535, minor_gcs: 2]]
>>>
>>> This data would be *much* more readable to me with digit separators:
>>>
>>> [memory: 173_978_912, message_queue_len: 0, heap_size: 12_834_421,
>>>   total_heap_size: 21_747_214,
>>>   garbage_collection: [min_bin_vheap_size: 46_422, min_heap_size: 233,
>>>    fullsweep_after: 65_535, minor_gcs: 2]]
>>>
>>> It probably shouldn't be the default behavior for inspect/2, so I think
>>> this could only happen with one of: [pretty: true] , [pretty: :decimal]or
>>> perhaps something like [pretty_decimal: true].
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Wojtek
>>>
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