On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 10:09, DNF <oyv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently spent an unreasonable amount of time figuring out what my error was
> in a function analogous to the following:
> too_many_outputs() = rand(100, 100), zeros(100, 100)
> a, b, c = too_many_outputs()
> The output from this is, on 0.5.0, several screenfuls of red numerical data,
> and an error message I simply did not understand
> ------ BoundsError --------------------- Stacktrace (most recent call last)
> [1] — indexed_next(::Tuple{Array{Float64,2},Array{Float64,2}}, ::Int64, ::
> Int64) at tuple.jl:33
>
> BoundsError: attempt to access (
>
> [0.301287 0.256923 0.722508 0.408858 0.319346 0.179616 0.960471 0.789095
> 0.910412 0.265434 0.718849 0.937929 0.0367298 0.205515 0.883508 0.712387
> 0.267544 0.301452 0.359053 0.640887 0.144168 0.288608 0.890876 0.812196
> 0.764392 0.729052 0.74899 0.189467 0.251815 0.368224 0.194331 0.477015
> 0.164543
> 0.719979 0.469798 0.575245 0.193929 0.921848 0.640391 0.0087104 0.329382
> 0.357261 0.237266 0.0663893 0.864157 0.619164 0.260045 0.774574 0.470039
> 0.571927 0.0538007 0.015361 0.121495 0.99733 0.672622 0.770356 0.0467123
> 0.597193 0.741415 0.809322 0.289837 0.919511 0.186844 0.233542 0.664298
> 0.0701865 0.166444 0.32414 0.425086 0.347678 0.442404 0.367277 0.493046
> 0.942807 0.210841 0.00490626 0.784097 .................
>
> My code actually had four return arrays each with 1 million elements, that
> were
> printed in full.
>
>
> Questions:
>
> 0. Is there already an issue for this (there always seems to be, but I cannot
> find one)
Yep, I've ran into this too. Here's the issue, add another thumbs up.
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/14734
> 1. Can the printing of the output tuple contents be compact like in normal
> array display?
>
> 2. Can the error message be more informative, e.g. "Too many output
> arguments"?
Presumably yes.
