Dear Juergen, It prints immediately. Great!!!
Last thing, if I could just ^C out of the middle of printing ⍳100000 but I could ^C^C out! (I understand this may be a readline issue that'll have to wait.) Thanks! Blake On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Juergen Sauermann < juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hi Blake, > > I did some rework of the print functions for APL values. > Some were not suited for values with many columns. > That should work better now. SVN 413. > > /// Jürgen > > > > On 08/01/2014 06:30 PM, Blake McBride wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Juergen Sauermann < > juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de> wrote: > >> Hi Blake, >> >> unfortunately the rules for APL output are such that you cannot "print as >> you go". >> > > > Try ⍳100000 > > That should be able to print as you go - IBM APL does. Right now there > is a significant delay - that I presume is unnecessarily using a > significant amount of memory to hold the formatted string. > > Of course, you still can't ^C out of that either - but that's a different > matter. > > I understand that in many situations you must format the whole thing > before you can can see how it lays out. But that is not true in cases > where it clearly doesn't fit (like ⍳100000) and many, many cases where it > is too large to have a reasonable format. Those are the cases when > print-as-you-go can be done and would be without delay, and save > significant memory - and hopefully easier to interrupt. > > Thanks. > > Blake > > > >
