Good points Andrea. Yes, let's ship this then.
*José Valim* www.plataformatec.com.br Skype: jv.ptec Founder and Director of R&D On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Andrea Leopardi <[email protected]> wrote: > I love this feature, but I am against wrapping in a tuple because then you > may wonder if you are inspecting a tuple or something with :tag. Instead, > if you have "my list: ..." it will not be like any other inspected term, so > very easy to understand. Wdyt? :) > > > Andrea Leopardi > [email protected] > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:57 AM, José Valim < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I like this suggestion. I am wondering though if the tagging should be >> done by wrapping the input in a tuple: >> >> IO.inspect([1, 2, 3], tag: “my list”) >> #=> {"my list", [1, 2, 3]} >> >> >> If not, we should probably just print: "my list: [1, 2, 3]". >> >> >> >> *José Valim* >> www.plataformatec.com.br >> Skype: jv.ptec >> Founder and Director of R&D >> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Michał Muskała <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello everybody. >>> >>> IO.inspect/2 is one of the most useful debugging tools, and I use it >>> extremely often. The ability to stick `|> IO.inspect` in pretty much every >>> part of the program is really powerful. Unfortunately when having multiple >>> such calls it becomes hard to distinguish which output matches which call. >>> The usual way to solve this is by inspecting something like {tag_name, >>> value} instead of just value, but this has the unfortunate effect of >>> breaking the pipe-ability and forces you to assign things into specific >>> variables. >>> >>> I propose we add an option to IO.inspect called tag. It would simply >>> print the tag before the output. How would it look like? >>> >>> IO.inspect([1, 2, 3], tag: “my list”) >>> >>> would print: >>> >>> my list => [1, 2, 3] >>> >>> The return value would obviously not change, so it would still be a list >>> [1, 2, 3] in that case. This still allows IO.inspect to be pipe-able and >>> gives us easily distinguishable output at the same time. I think this would >>> streamline the debugging experience and make IO.inspect even more powerful. >>> >>> Michał. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/E807B41E-B89A-43CD-B55D-60A742B55BBC%40muskala.eu >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4%2BUhyhgMDdNy0gJk2Pm_eafm_n6SBViXmjiq8AWepEBeQ%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4%2BUhyhgMDdNy0gJk2Pm_eafm_n6SBViXmjiq8AWepEBeQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAM9Rf%2BL60EKrTAaP0VZ%2BcsSnff5ffQuZVHOkS__qQdBTRmJi1Q%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAM9Rf%2BL60EKrTAaP0VZ%2BcsSnff5ffQuZVHOkS__qQdBTRmJi1Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4KMZhzMGNCjoTRahwwmQzfc%2BPN6qsCTG54vJp12jjR2rA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
