I'm not sure if this was brought before. Basically I've got lot's of fields in my custom type and would like to tweak the println function to include also the field name before printing each value. This tweak will tremendously help me with debugging my output.
For instance this simplified example gives the following output: type myType myName::Int myValue::String end Dict(7=>myType(5,"CCC"),3=>myType(3,"BBB"),1=>myType(1,"AAA")) And this line is the (non-existing custom prinln) output I'd like to get: Dict(7=>myType(myName:5,myValue:"CCC"),3=>myType(myName:3,myValue:"BBB"),1=>myType(myName:1,myValue:"AAA")) Before start looking in the details I'd like to find out if anybody had similar idea before? Perhaps this is not a new thing and something similar already exists in the form of a library? The other question I have is how to make the custom print function generic enough? I'd like to mimic the behavior of println this way so it has to work with any data type. At the moment it is not clear how println determines which fields of a type to output. For instance for the Dict type which has these fields :slots :keys :vals :ndel :count How can we tell only keys and values are 'printable'? Thank you
