From: David Pirotte <david@altosw.be>
To: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Cc: 29684@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29684: exception printers - request for improvement
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 23:17:22 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180803231722.26278aad@capac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180704093012.GA23703@tuxteam.de>
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Hi Thomas,
> ...
> Hm. Applying the peanut gallery factor to my opinion (roughly 10e-7), I tend to
> side with David's position: the default consumer of REPL's print is a human, and
> feeding him/her with huge binary things isn't "tasty"...
> But... grain of salt, and things. What would be David's position's downsides?
If the change I'm proposing is implemented in such a way that it still offer,
through an option mechanism, to display several lines ... (and it has to be
implemented this way, as also spotted by Andy in a subsequent email), then
I fail to see any downsides.
Regards,
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-04 2:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-13 3:26 bug#29684: exception printers - request for improvement David Pirotte
2018-07-01 16:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-01 22:23 ` David Pirotte
2018-07-02 6:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-03 19:31 ` David Pirotte
2018-07-04 9:30 ` tomas
2018-08-04 2:17 ` David Pirotte [this message]
[not found] <mailman.20.1513184404.6520.bug-guile@gnu.org>
2017-12-14 14:38 ` Daniel Llorens
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