patch applied (ghc): GHCi debugger: added a new flag, -fno-print-binding-contents

[pepe]

To clarify, this is only when doing ':show bindings', not when doing  
':print'.
Ensuring that the output given never gets too large would mean  
arbitrarily cutting it to make it fit, or giving the user some control  
over these settings. I remember talking to you about this in ICFP, and  
I got the impression you thought it was overkill. Did I misunderstand ?

For now we have a shallow (fixed) depth limit in the term  
reconstruction step which helps to limit the size of terms, but  
unfortunately not the size of the output given by the pretty printer.  
I plan to experiment with Pretty.fullRender with well-chosen settings,  
that should be a big win. Any other suggestion will be very appreciated.

pepe


On 14/11/2007, at 10:17, Simon Marlow wrote:

> Pepe Iborra wrote:
>> Tue Nov 13 09:45:39 PST 2007  Pepe Iborra <mnislaih at gmail.com>
>>  * GHCi debugger: added a new flag, -fno-print-binding-contents
>>    The contents of bindings show at breakpoints and by :show bindings
>>  is rendered using the same printer that :print uses.
>>  But sometimes the output it gives spans over too many lines and the
>>  user may want to be able to disable it.
>
> Then wouldn't it be better to ensure that it never gets too large?   
> Or is that too hard?
>
> Cheers,
> 	Simon