Re: [VOTE] Dump results of expressions in `php -a`

On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 15:40, Bob Weinand <bobwei9@hotmail.com> wrote: > My main concern in this iteration of the RFC is: what happens with > big/deeply nested objects? > They tend to spew tons of lines if var_dump()'ed. Do we have reasonable > depth/output limitations in default dumping mode? > Good catch Bob, I'd completely overlooked this was missing in the RFC. I like how IPython's REPL has configuration options for this. When I start it I can pass in arguments to truncate the output a lot or not at all. If I always want these settings, I add them to a config file. I hoped existing REPLs (in different languages) would have consensus about when and where to truncate output, and representations to use; but when I played with a few over the weekend, there wasn't. Some assume you want everything output; others (for data structures) the first N items, and others the first N/2 and the last N/2. Objects often show very little that's useful. Do you know of any research or writeups as to what works best - or even saved output of how various REPLs show their output? Peter