From: Elliot Winkler <elliot.winkler@...>
Date: 2006-10-30T06:23:02+09:00
Subject: PP / PrettyPrint annoyances

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Hello all,

PP/PrettyPrint comes in handy when I'm trying to inspect the contents of
large arrays, but what if some elements are short length-wise?

irb(main):001:0> require 'pp'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> pp (0..20).to_a
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20]
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> pp (0..40).to_a
[0,
 1,
 2,
 3,
 4,
 5,
 6,
 7,
 8,
 9,
 10,
 11,
 12,
 13,
 14,
 15,
 16,
 17,
 18,
 19,
 20,
 21,
 22,
 23,
 24,
 25,
 26,
 27,
 28,
 29,
 30,
 31,
 32,
 33,
 34,
 35,
 36,
 37,
 38,
 39,
 40]
=> nil

This behavior is sort of ridiculous in my opinion. I'd rather have something
more like:

[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38,
 39, 40]

I've looked at the source code and documentation for PrettyPrint and PP but
I don't understand how they work, so I'm not really sure how the classes
could be extended so they work how I want them to work. I also tried
numerous Google searches and it seems no one has a problem with the default
behavior as I do. Can someone give me a hand here or at least point me in
the right direction?

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