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Proposal: Depth limit for Debug printing

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Hey,

when printing a struct with self-reference property, rust will hang in the loop.
Would be very useful to have a ability to set the DebugStruct depth or overall.

Regards,
TheAifam5

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Feature
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