[Cuis] #printStringLimitedTo:

Phil (list) pbpublist at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 01:04:59 CDT 2015


On Sat, 2015-07-18 at 21:33 -0700, Ken.Dickey wrote:
> I find it kind of odd that #printStringLimitedTo: takes the prefix of a too-long string and adds '...etc...', which itself is 9 characters.
> 
> I think a shorter addition would make more sense.  After all, the string is already too long, right?
> 
> I like '[..]' , which is only four characters. 
> 
> Would anyone else like to weigh in on this?  Other options?

I agree that the current suffix is long-ish and like your [..] idea as
that's unlikely to appear in the majority of strings but would still
convey the information.

> -KenD
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