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.
