Are you saying that this limit exists, or that it's something that would have to be implemented?
Regards, Elias On 30 April 2014 23:29, Juergen Sauermann <juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de>wrote: > 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 >> > >
