Damn. That was quick.
(hides head in shame)
On Monday, February 19, 2018 at 7:40:07 PM UTC-6, Paul Schoenfelder wrote:
>
> You can already do this today with IO.inspect(foo, label: "label") :)
>
> Paul
>
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 7:32 PM pragdave <prag...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
>> When I use IO.inspect in a pipeline, I often find myself wanting to tag
>> the output with some kind of label:
>>
>> ~~~ elixir
>> get_name()
>> |> IO.inspect()
>> |> lookup_score()
>> |> IO.inspect
>> ~~~
>>
>> so I sometimes write a trivial helper
>>
>> ~~~
>> def dump(value, label) do
>> IO.puts "#{label}: #{inspect value}"
>> value
>> end
>> ~~~
>>
>> This means I can write:
>>
>> ~~~ elixir
>> get_name()
>> |> dump("Name is")
>> |> lookup_score()
>> |> dump("score")
>> ~~~
>>
>> Any chance we could
>>
>> 1. Add a `label: "text"` option to IO.inspect?
>>
>> 2. Add a new signature to IO.inspect, so that
>>
>> ~~~~
>> def inspect(value, label) when is_binary(label) do
>> inspect(value, label: label)
>> end
>> ~~~
>>
>> I'd happily do the PR
>>
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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