truncation of data structures in console

[bblfish]

The new dotty console is very beautiful, but is missing one key feature to make it useable for exploring data projects: truncation of data structures.

When working with libraries to explore data, ammonite truncates the view of the resulting values. This allows one to work on libraries that explore very larg data structures. This is impossible on the dotty console as it prints out the whole content of values, flooding the console, and potentially crashing it soon thereafter.

Of course this also requires one to have a way of paging over the data without it all going to the console. Ammonite has a show(value) and browse(value) command to do that.