Limited printing?

[Peter Alexander]

On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 11:16:41 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Do you desire some way to have a shortened printing if the 
> generated text is going to be huge?

I say no. IO isn't always for human consumption (as it usually is 
in Mathematica). You could very well be printing out as a means 
of serialisation, and you certainly don't want your data to be 
trimmed in that case.

For a systems programming language, consistency is absolutely 
critical.