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Subject: Re: [RFC] Change "set print frame-arguments"'s default to scalars
From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Also, Jan had the excellent idea that we could limit the output
> (truncate it after some number of characters and add "...") for a
> given value, rather than have the selection be all-or-none.  This
> could easily be done by making a new kind of output stream, and then
> using it when printing a frame in stack.c.  Let me know what you think
> of this; I can implement it if people think it is a good idea.

I've seen various Scheme interpreters do this.  I like it.