JShell: representation of array values

[John Rose]

On Sep 21, 2016, at 6:16 PM, Robert Field <robert.field at oracle.com> wrote:
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> Comments???

Another +1 from me.  Some comments from my inner Common Lisper:

There should be a close brace after the "…" of an overlong array.
This will allow syntax sensitive editors (emacs!) to block the thing correctly.

The cutoff length of the overlong array should be a configurable number.

You might consider a configurable cutoff for printed nesting level.

These ideas from from this section of the CL manual:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node193.html#LEVELLENGTHTABLE

There is also an option called *print-array* which gates whether arrays should be expanded at all.
This is relevant to Java, which also distinguishes Arrays.toString from Object.toString.

— John