JShell: result truncation

[John Rose]

On Sep 22, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Robert Field <robert.field at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't want to push configurable truncation through all those layers.  So, we are stuck with truncation being stupid (not in terms of context) in terms of the kind of value it is truncating.
> Truncation is operating on Strings for which it knows nothing of their structure or content.
> They might be a long String, List, or ...
> 
> That said, it better for whatever the truncated thing is to have a bit of terminal context.

Yes, that seems fine to me.  — John