Changing default options for util.inspect

[silverwind]

console.log and relatives use util.inspect to stringify complex structures, which creates somewhat of a dilemma when you have an application making use of bare console functions but you'd like unrestricted nesting (depth: null) or more than 100 visible array elements ( maxArrayLength: null) by default.

To change the default, I could see util.inspect.setup(opts) being made available. Anyone with me?

[mscdex]

I think at that point, you should just consider using your own logging function everywhere.

[jasnell]

Having some mechanism by which to modify the defaults here makes sense, but I'm not sure we could get consensus around it. An alternate logging function (or monkeypatch for console) would likely be the most productive approach.

[silverwind]

Let's see how it goes. Filed #8013.