RFC: add ability to avoid printing trailing type parameters #58389
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Lots of types have extra parameters added just for specialization and conveying no useful additional information. I have gotten requests for some way to avoid printing these to cut down type verbosity e.g. in stack traces. This PR adds a very minimal mechanism that does the job:
Note the limit is only applied inside the stack trace and not the exception, but that's an orthogonal feature that could be changed.
It might seem a bit un-principled to just cram a mutable integer field in there; we wouldn't necessarily want this changing all the time. Nevertheless I think this is a pretty efficient and effective way to do this. Using methods would be way too heavyweight. But, we might want to make the field constant and only set once when the type is defined, and have some macro syntax for specifying this.