getfield(foo, :bar)

You can iterate over the fieldnames(foo) to print things. I would avoid a 
potentially wasteful conversion to a dictionary since it doesn't buy you 
anything in terms of expressive power.

--John

On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 8:38:04 PM UTC-7, Lewis Lehe wrote:
>
> Hi I was wondering if there is a way to do this? To access a fieldname 
> with a variable?
>
> type Foo
>  bar:Float64
> end
>
> foo = Foo(5.0)
>
> test = :bar
> foo[test]
>
>
>
> Also, I wondered if there is a way to convert an object into a dict? I 
> want to "println" an object in a way that's readable in the output, like a 
> Dict.
>
>
>
>

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