On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:48 PM, cdm <cdmclean....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 7:31:52 PM UTC-8, Yichao Yu wrote: >> >> >> Both? I don't see the difference. I'm only saying that `show` does not >> simply write the string to the stream, but prints the representation >> of the string object instead, which is the quoted string. > > > julia> dump(a) > String "i have \$100 ..." > > > i hope to find a list of decorators, > in addition to double quote and > back slash and single quote, > which are canonically "un-decorated" > by print()/println() ...
Just to be clear. print/println does not "un-decorate" anything at all. It's `show`/`display`/`dump` "decorate" (escape/quote) it. > > many thanks
