Improve F# Interactive formatting of byte arrays about fsharp HOT 8 OPEN

Its not opinionated its just the standard format for hex bytes. Anything else would be opinionated and specific. If theres an option for binary formatted bytes then why not a hex format.

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Could it be possible to do something like .ToString("H") or is that all coming from .Net side?

When you are e.g. debugging a byte array content, you would need something that is already there, not needing to trust a random intrnet site still has maybe a working part you have to plugin to your source code.

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fsi output for any array should definitely stay [|...; ...; ...|].

String is a seq of characters and still the fsi output is not like [| 72; 101; 108; 108; 111; 32; 87; 111; 114; 108; ... |].
Why? Because no-one finds that useful, exactly like bytes [|116uy; 104uy; ... |] .

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We're unlikely to take it to standard library (FSharp.Core), it's too specific and opinionated. It belongs to some sort of helpers library/module, now the question if we want to ship something like it alongside the fsi? Fsi printing is extensible, so shouldn't be a problem to just have a DLL for it?

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Its not opinionated its just the standard format for hex bytes.

Right, in hex editor, where you can render it by columns and synchronise cursor between them, so it's actually useful.

In F# REPL I prefer to see closer to how it would've been defined, so I can copy easily and do something with it.

Does any other REPL have this as standard output?

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What Im saying is viewing bytes in hex is not opinionated, its a very sensible and standard way of viewing bytes. In my emulator code I use this too:

let mpf68901 = 0xFFFA00u

etc, it would be extremely unnatural to use ints

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What Im saying is viewing bytes in hex is not opinionated, it's a very sensible and standard way of viewing bytes.

What I meant is that it can be confusing as standard view option in repl, but fine as a function/method, but we don't really have a standardised way of shipping such helpers with fsi.

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Indeed the above getBytesTable is a nice helper function for building specific tools. But the standard fsi output for any array should definitely stay [|...; ...; ...|].
fssnip.net is a good place to post / search such functions.

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