[Openmcl-devel] api interrupt

[Ron Garret]

On Jun 9, 2014, at 10:54 AM, peter <p2.edoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I occasionally (mistakenly) evaluate some form which returns a very large data structure in the Listener. This bogs down everything as the printer struggles to print the output.


> Is there any way to modify the environment so that a listener aborts large output automatically before the whole of ccl goes gaga?

It depends on what kind of data structure you’re printing, but setting the following variables to reasonable integer values might help:

*print-length*
*print-string-length*
*print-level*

rg