[jira] [Created] (GROOVY-7568) Groovysh output should be more safe, verbose about types and String output

["Thibault Kruse (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Thibault Kruse created GROOVY-7568:
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             Summary: Groovysh output should be more safe, verbose about types and String output
                 Key: GROOVY-7568
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7568
             Project: Groovy
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Groovysh
            Reporter: Thibault Kruse
            Priority: Minor


The output of buffer evaluation results in Groovy hides a lot of useful information from the user.

In particular Strings are printed without surrounding hyphens, collections are printed without telling whether they are Lists, Maps, Sets, or Ranges. Ranges are printed fully as lists (which can be unnecessarily long).

An implementation is almost done at https://github.com/tkruse/incubator-groovy/tree/pretty

Both Python and Ruby shells follow the approach of printing strings as code-strings (with hyphens and escaping).

The downside or more information is that this output could be regarded as "too noisy".



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