[m-dev.] What's the status of the print cmd in mdb?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 11-Oct-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Towards the end of August there was discussion of extensions to
> mdb's top-level print command, which seemed to come to a universally
> agreeable conclusion.  Did anyone get round to implementing it all?

Which extensions did you have in mind?

> For that matter, why does `print' sometimes show lists in [1, 2, 3]
> form and sometimes in .(1, .(2, .(3, [])))?  Most odd.

If the term is small enough, it just uses `io__write', which uses
list notation.  But if the term exceeds a certain size, it can't
use `io__write', since `io__write' doesn't have any depth limit;
instead it uses the term browser's print routine, which does have
a depth limit but which doesn't use list notation.

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