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From: Paul Singleton <p.singleton@keele.ac.uk>
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Jan Wielemaker wrote:

> ...  SWI-Prolog
> has no limitations on length nor content for atoms and they are subject
> to garbage collection.

...which makes them irresistible (to a heretic like me) for holding e.g.
LONGVARCHAR values retrieved from an RDBMS.  Hence my request: in the
debugger's "print" mode, when terms are displayed only to max_depth(10)
or whatever, could very long atoms also be truncated?  OLE Objects can
be a bit tedious as they scroll past :-)

cheers - Paul Singleton

