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After seeing the discussion in #680, I'm wondering if showing the firsts values of the flattened array wouldn't be enough here, e.g., something like this:

```

d <xarray.DataArray (a: 2, b: 5, c: 2, d: 10)> array int64 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ... Coordinates: * a (a) <U1 'A' 'B' * b (b) <U5 'Cat 1' 'Cat 2' 'Cat 3' 'Cat 4' 'Cat 5' * c (c) <U1 'J' 'K' * d (d) int64 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ```

This example is more consistent with the repr of Dataset data variables, and similarly we could customize the repr of dask arrays and lazy arrays (loaded from netcdf files) like this:

```

d.chunk((10, 5, 5, 10)) <xarray.DataArray (a: 2, b: 5, c: 2, d: 10)> dask.array int64 chunksize=(10, 5, 5, 10) Coordinates: * a (a) <U1 'A' 'B' * b (b) <U5 'Cat 1' 'Cat 2' 'Cat 3' 'Cat 4' 'Cat 5' * c (c) <U1 'J' 'K' * d (d) int64 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ```

```

d.name = 'myvar' d.to_netcdf('data.nc') xr.open_dataset('data.nc').myvar <xarray.DataArray 'myvar' (a: 2, b: 5, c: 2, d: 10)> lazy-array int64 Coordinates: * a (a) <U1 'A' 'B' * b (b) <U5 'Cat 1' 'Cat 2' 'Cat 3' 'Cat 4' 'Cat 5' * c (c) <U1 'J' 'K' * d (d) int64 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ```

 
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