You want show, not print. -- John
On Sep 9, 2014, at 3:32 PM, muraveill <murave...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is really confusing. In the REPL one can evaluate a stream to get useful > info on what the object is: > > julia> f > IOStream(<file test.txt>) > > But in a script, just "f" would not work, so for debugging I try to print it > to stdout: > > julia> print(f) > [empty] > > julia> println(f) > ERROR: attempt to write to a read-only IOStream > in write at iostream.jl:208 > in println at string.jl:5 > > julia> print(repr(f)) > IOStream(<file test.txt>) > > I thought that "write" was the method to write to a file. > Why is there this strange re-use of "println"? I suggest a "writeln" if it is > just to append a newline to a file. > Why does "print" not use the representation of the object? > Am I supposed to use "repr" every time, or am I just debugging the wrong way?
