There is real no sensible default value rather than the current. But for me the current behaviour is no problem, just C-c C-c to interrupt evaluation (at least in cider)
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Gary Trakhman <gary.trakh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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