Ah, thanks for the answer, that does make sense.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: julia-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:julia-
> us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yichao Yu
> Sent: Monday, November 7, 2016 8:02 PM
> To: Julia Users <julia-users@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [julia-users] Re: Escaped $ in Strings has a strange behavior
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:55 PM, cdm <cdmclean....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 7:51:34 PM UTC-8, Yichao Yu wrote:
> >>
> >> Just to be clear. print/println does not "un-decorate" anything at
> >> all. It's `show`/`display`/`dump` "decorate" (escape/quote) it.
> >
> >
> > perhaps the help docs are not clear then ... ?
> >
> > print(x)
> >
> > Write (to the default output stream) a canonical (un-decorated) text
> > representation of a value if there is one, otherwise call show. The
> > representation used
> > by print includes minimal formatting and tries to avoid
> > Julia-specific details.
>
> The doc string says that the function prints the form that is `un-decorated`
> i.e. not decorated, different from show, which does `decorate` it.
