That's not documented: help?> dump Base.dump(x)
Show all user-visible structure of a value. Are there any more options to dump? On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 5:10 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure, but maybe this is what you are looking for, > > https://gist.github.com/toivoh/4121122 > > > On Sunday, January 4, 2015 6:49:39 AM UTC+1, Darwin Darakananda wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Is there currently a function that converts s-expressions into Expr >> structures (basically the reverse of Base.Meta.show_sexpr)? >> >> I just started playing around with metaprogramming in Julia, so I'm >> probably doing things wrong. But there are a lot of times where I end up >> creating highly nested Expr objects, ending up with code that is >> indecipherable. I've found that the output from show_sexpr is sometimes >> easier to read that that of dump or xdump (which only seems to display the >> first couple of levels). So I'm curious to see if the reverse >> (s-expression -> Expr) is also true. >> >> If this function does not exist, would it be something that people would >> find useful? >> >> Thanks and Happy New Years! >> >> Darwin >> >
