Hi,
maybe some ⎕SYL limit could work. Currently we have such limits on the
depth of the SI,
on the number of values, and on the number of ravel bytes. This was to
limit infinite recursion of
user-defined functions. When such a limit is reached then an ATTENTION
is thrown and you can decide
to continue (→'') or to escape (→) or to change the value for example.
/// Jürgen
On 04/30/2014 04:35 PM, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
Sometimes, I accidentally make a mistake in interactive mode that
causes GNU APL to try to render a very large array to the screen. This
can cause the pretty-printer to essentially hang for very long amounts
of time, and this operation can't be interrupted. I usually have to
kill the APL session, losing the entire workspace.
Would it make sense to have a parameter that controls the largest
value that will be displayed in an interactive session. Too large
arrays could be displayed using for example the first few rows and
some kind of symbol or message indicating that the output has been
truncated.
Something like "...remaining rows have been truncated (⍴ = 5837 23)"
would be neat.
This could have saved me numerous times.
Regards,
Elias
