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[Caml-list] pretty printers and format and matrices

Chris Hecker
- Markus Mottl
  - Chris Hecker
    - Hendrik Tews
      - Pierre Weis
        
        Patrick M Doane
        
        Pierre Weis
        
        Frank Atanassow
        
        Pierre Weis
        
        Hendrik Tews
        
        Pierre Weis
    - Pierre Weis

Date:	-- (:)
From:	Patrick M Doane <patrick@w...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] pretty printers and format and matrices

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Pierre Weis wrote:

> Having to open more than 1000 boxes to print any material seems
> incredible to me, since I used to pretty print an entire Caml compiler
> within 35 boxes.
> 
> Anyway, I'm afraid there is no notion of infinity in Format. Neither
> in the Caml integer values. Hence no solution to your problem.

Would it be reasonable to increase the default value from 35?  Are there
any performance problems with setting this value to max_int in the
pp_make_formatter routine?

Patrick

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