[Feature Request] tablex.print_r about batteries

[1bardesign]

There is stringx.pretty which may suit your needs? It is currently not safe to use on tables that may contain cyclic references though (you'll get a stack overflow).

[TurtleP]

Yeah, just tried it on a table and got a stack overflow. If this (the issue I raised) was (part of) the intended use of stringx.pretty, I guess it's okay, but it wasn't immediately obvious to me I suppose. Only thing is I guess having it not stack overflow? Not sure what's causing that on my end, but hopefully I can figure it out.

[1bardesign]

A stack overflow with stringx.pretty is caused by a cycle of references within the table.

local a, b ={}, {} 
a.cycle, b.cycle = b, a
stringx.pretty(a) -- stack overflow

This is a known issue in stringx.pretty that needs tracking of all already-printed tables in a call.

A method to print using stringx.pretty instead of tostring each argument could be added - in that case I'd probably change to a separate pretty module with string and print functions

[1bardesign]

See https://github.com/1bardesign/batteries/blob/master/pretty.lua 🎉