On Sat, 2015-01-31 at 04:53, i.costi...@me.com wrote: > I've got lots of multi-field types in a package I'm developing > <https://github.com/imanuelcostigan/FinancialMarkets.jl> and would like to > understand how I might best show() them optimally. The default method > applied to some types prints what is effectively unreadable garbage to the > REPL. Has someone else successfully dealt with this?
Try overloading Base.show something like: function Base.show(io::IO, mt::MyType) print(io, "My type with field $(mt.fld1)") end