"But in most languages print+string is mainly used in situations where quotes are noise, like user-directed output or printing text to a file. (exlangs. c, lisp, java, python, javascript...)"
-that's a good point... On 26 September 2016 at 15:56, Fábio Cardeal <[email protected]> wrote: > No prob (and sorry for the lame joke), I think that's how it works in R? > But in most languages print+string is mainly used in situations where > quotes are noise, like user-directed output or printing text to a file. > (exlangs. c, lisp, java, python, javascript...) > That is just a domain+tradition thing. I am actually curious to see what > languages do differently now... to the google machine! > > Em segunda-feira, 26 de setembro de 2016 10:25:00 UTC-3, MLicer escreveu: >> >> Thanks. I can also use typeof(), i just somehow assumed that strings >> would print as "strings" by default... >> >> Cheers! >> >> On 26 September 2016 at 15:17, Fábio Cardeal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> "Any reason?" >>> "None that I can think of..." >>> "But you can use *show *if you need 'em" >>> "You'll need to put the newline yourself after it, tho." >>> "there is also* display*, *@show*... Take a look here: >>> http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.5/stdlib/io-network/#text-i-o"; >>> "" >>> "Good luck!" >>> >>> if need 'em" >>> >>> Em segunda-feira, 26 de setembro de 2016 09:18:26 UTC-3, MLicer escreveu: >>>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> REPL prints strings enclosed in double quotation marks, like so: >>>> >>>> "9999.0" >>>> >>>> Is there any reason why println() in a script prints strings *without* >>>> double quotation marks, like so: >>>> >>>> 9999.0 >>>> >>>> , where 9999.0 is actually "9999.0"? I just spent a good deal of time >>>> debugging my code due to this property without realizing i am actually >>>> comparing *floats* to *strings...* >>>> >>>> Best regards! >>>> >>> >>
