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On 12/04/2010 10:32 AM, Steve Conover wrote:
> Imagine an assert failure where inspecting an object in the assert
> spews three pages of stuff.  What should we do about this, exactly?

brain-dead truncation?

As in my irbrc:

class IRB::Irb
   def output_value
     text =
       if @context.inspect?
         sprintf @context.return_format, @context.last_value.inspect
       else
         sprintf @context.return_format, @context.last_value
       end
     max = @context.max_output_size
     if text.size < max
       puts text
     else
       puts text[0..max-1] + "..." + text[-2..-1]
     end
   end
end