Re: How to utop to print out really large lists.

Sorry about the bad English.  The title should have read, "How to
*customize* utop to print out really large lists".  Sorry if the original
title was a little confusing or misleading.

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Douglas Lewit [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hi everyone,
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> So let's say that I'm using the following function to create a list of
> random integers:
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> *let rec randomList lower upper size = if size = 0 then [ ] else ( lower +
> Random.int ( upper - lower + 1 )*
> *:: ( randomList lower upper ( size - 1 ) ) ;;*
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> The function works great!  I end up with a list of length size having
> random integers in the range lower..upper ( including the endpoints of that
> range ).  But here's the catch.
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> Let's say that I do this:
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> *let dougsList = randomList 1 1000 1000 ;;*
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> Okay, great.... but if I'm using the *utop interface* for OCaml, then I
> can only see about the first 350 ( approximately ) elements of my random
> list.  Is there some setting in utop that I can change so that utop is
> forced to print out the entire list for the sake of my visual inspection.
> I realize that visually inspecting a list of 1,000 elements sounds rather
> crazy and unrealistic, but the user of the interface should have that
> option.
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> Thanks for helping me solve this problem.
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> Best,
>
> Douglas Lewit
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