Subject: Atom (was: String) Representation

From: Paul Singleton <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 19:30:35 +0100

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