That is the sort of thing I was thinking of. Maybe not the diagram output part, but certainly the business of printing all the input values and maybe the subexpressions as well.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Peter Niederwieser <[email protected]>wrote: > Just to contribute some ideas, some time ago I implemented macro-based > "power asserts" for Groovy and Scala, and people really seem to love them. > (See https://github.com/pniederw/expecty#code-examples for some example > output of the Scala variant. The Groovy variant produces similar output, > and is built into the language's `assert` statement.) Maybe Julia could > offer something similar? > > Cheers, > Peter > > PS: Great language, by the way. I'm not into technical computing, but I > admire Julia's feature set (e.g. multiple dispatch with extensible > functions feels so right), and how well it copes without hardwiring > features into the language. I'm convinced that this kind of expressiveness > is invaluable for "business computing" as well. >
