Idea: long & nested array-like tables about inspect.lua HOT 4 CLOSED

I think luaunit does something like that
https://github.com/bluebird75/luaunit/blob/master/luaunit.lua#L852

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Hi there,

I am not opposed to something like this, but I don't think I would activate it by default. It could be done by adding an extra option in the options param. Or maybe making the options.newline option accept a function with some parameters to decide this kind of thing.

I gave a quick look at luaunit and it wasn't clear to me that the keeponeline variable worked as you say. It seems to me you must choose between "all in one line" (keeponeline=true) or "all elements in a new line, even the short ones" (keeponeline=false). There doesn't seem to be a way to "automatically deciding whether to keep things in one line or not depending on their length'.

What do you think? Would you consider making a pull request for this?

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I also had just a quick look to luaunit source, I'm not sure if the line I linked is the correct one, but luaunit works that way. This is some output form luaunit:

[...]
    {
        "knot",
        "dragged_outside",
        {"para", "He insisted that we hurried home to Savile Row"},
        {"divert", "as_fast_as_we_could"}
    },
    {"knot", "as_fast_as_we_could", "glue", {"para", "as fast as we could."}}

Two objects, both have strings and objects inside, first one is multiline, second one is one-line.

I may try to do a pull request if I find some time, thanks :)

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Closing this for now, but feel free to send a PR if you want!

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