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print: display string in REPL without quotation marks
Currently
display(1.5, "abc")
prints:
abc 1.5
and
display("cde", abc")
prints:
abc: "cde"
This works quite well, with the exception that sometimes, I want to display a (possibly multi-line) string without quotation marks, and without a value coming after it. I propose that we introduce print(string)
:
print("**********************************************\n*** the program entered the main algorithm ***"\n*********************************************")
should just display
**********************************************
*** the program entered the main algorithm ***
**********************************************
without quotation marks.
obsolete:
What happens if we want to display the actual value undefined
?
obsolete:
What happens if we want to display the actual value
undefined
?
A small hack would be needed:
display(value, "the value is:" + (is_undefined(value) ? " undefined" : ""))