[Scilab-users] Accidentally displaying huge matrices

[Serge Steer]

Le 27/05/2015 10:46, Samuel Gougeon a écrit :
> Le 27/05/2015 10:06, Lamy Alain a écrit :
>> Maybe define a second function  ?
>>
>> disp => displays in the "julia" way (for instance)
>> disp_all =>  display all elements whatever the size (it's the user
>> responsibility to limit the size to something reasonable)
> I guess that Serge was wondering about the default display, when an
> instruction is not followed by ";".
> disp() is something else. When we use disp(), the output is
> intentional and required. So there should not have any abstract with
> disp().
>
> For the default output, i rather agree with Serge. But the limit
> between a full display and an abstract should be tunable (in addition
> to a switch to an non-wrapped mode).
> For instance, a max number of lines set through lines() <0 could mean
> that an abstract is preferred for taller output. If it is >0, the
> pagging mode is preferred. And if it is 0, no limit would be set (as
> it is presently).
>
Just take care that lines() does not rule olny the display of a
variable, it also rules the display of all outputs generated by an
intruction as in the following example:

lines(10)
for i=1:20,i,end


Serge
> Samuel
>
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