displaying structure arrays

John W. Eaton jwe at octave.org
Tue Apr 7 13:58:09 CDT 2009


On  4-Apr-2009, Thorsten Meyer wrote:

| Overall, we have this display behaviour for the container types in octave:
|  - structures can be printed up to a certain level controlled by the
| struct_levels_to_print function
|  - cell arrays are always shown fully (as far as I know)
|  - structure arrays are only shown to the first level (i.e. field names) now
| 
| Actually, I would vote for a consistent way to control the display depth in all
| three cases. So what do you think about this:
| We replace the struct_levels_to_print function (and internal variable) by a
| levels_to_print function that controls the printing depth in all three cases?

I think this would be a good change.

Thanks,

jwe


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