Being able to discard the return value in an interactive shell is not just ,,fine'', but actually crucial feature (the exact syntax for discarding is less impor

Being able to discard the return value in an interactive shell is not just ,,fine'', but actually crucial feature (the exact syntax for discarding is less important). Quite often the rendering of an object would take so much time, that the interactive shell would hang, or so much space that it's not worth to show it.