[r13277][1] now places the control of the elision of PRINT-OBJECT representation of otherwise an unspecialized JAVA-OBJECT by the value of JAVA:*JAVA-OBJECT-TO-STRING-LENGTH*.

[1]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/13277

The addresses the problem Blake McBride reported as follows (in an email that mysteriously didn't make it to the armedbear-devel list)

On 5/14/11 03:19 , Blake McBride wrote:

I am trying to pretty-print an object. I'm getting:

#(#<java.lang.reflect.Field private static final long com.ar...

{6666F55B}>

#<java.lang.reflect.Field public static final java.lang.St...

{43D027D5}>

#<java.lang.reflect.Field public static final java.lang.St...

{7CDF3533}>

#<java.lang.reflect.Field public static final java.lang.St...

{221DE751}>

#<java.lang.reflect.Field public static final java.lang.St...

{593D8856}>)

I need to be able to see the "..." parts in order to debug a problem I am having. I tried virtually every combination of printer control variables I could think of with no changes at all.

I have also changed the elision character sequence from "..." to "...." to avoid confusing users that this has anything to do with the standard pretty printer variables (*PRINT-LENGTH* uses "..." to indicate its elision).