I'd be interested in knowing this as well. Lots of tutorials have things like
(take 10 (range)) followed by statements that range on it's own will break your REPL. Seems to me a common gotcha for Clojure. Phil Andreas Liljeqvist <[email protected]> writes: > 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 <[email protected]>wrote: > >> http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/*print-length* >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Christopher Howard >> <[email protected]>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. However, if it would simply refuse to >>> evaluate lazy sequence (say, represent them by some special identifier) >>> that >>> would be good enough for me. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >>> your first post. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Clojure" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: [email protected] School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, twitter: phillord NE1 7RU -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
