Good points Andrea. Yes, let's ship this then.


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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.
>>>
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