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.