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exception printers - request for improvement

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Message #26 received at 29684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Pirotte <david <at> altosw.be>
To: <tomas <at> tuxteam.de>
Cc: 29684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29684: exception printers - request for improvement
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 23:17:22 -0300

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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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