Can I disable printing lists of small integers as strings in Erlang shell?

Question

The Erlang shell \"guesses\" whether a given list is a printable string and prints it that way for convenience. Can this \"convenience\" be disabled?

Answer 1

I tend to do it by prepending an atom to my list in the shell.

for example:

Eshell V5.7.4  (abort with ^G)
1> [65,66,67].
"ABC"
2> [a|[65,66,67]].
[a,65,66,67]

could also be [a,65,66,67], of course. but [a|fun_that_returns_a_list()] will print "the right thing(ish) most of the time"