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

Hi,

I for myself would not ask utop to do this, since a List.iter (fun  i -> print_int i;
print_string "  ") yourlist is enough.
And hacking in such code snippets is a nice finger training IMO.


/Str.

On 05.02.2016 19:02, Douglas Lewit [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] wrote:
>  
> Hi everyone,
>
> So let's say that I'm using the following function to create a list of random integers:
>
> *let rec randomList lower upper size = if size = 0 then [ ] else ( lower +
> Random.int ( upper - lower + 1 )*
> *:: ( randomList lower upper ( size - 1 ) ) ;;*
>
> 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.
>
> Let's say that I do this:
>
> *let dougsList = randomList 1 1000 1000 ;;*
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks for helping me solve this problem.
>
> Best,
>
> Douglas Lewit
>
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