[slime-devel] swank:*sldb-printer-bindings* binding *print-lines* to 10

Helmut Eller heller at common-lisp.net
Sun Jan 4 19:56:47 UTC 2009


* Tobias C. Rittweiler [2009-01-04 17:27+0100] writes:

> Is there a particular reason why SWANK:*SLDB-PRINTER-BINDINGS* binds
> *PRINT-LINES* to 10 instead of NIL?

Some limit seems reasonable to stop the debugger from producing
megabytes of output just for the error message.  Think of printing the
contents of a bitvector.  10 is more or less arbitrary.  But what is the
maximum length of good error message?

Helmut.





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