The option of @pfitzseb is nice.
Another option is to define your own macro:
macro infoshow(expr)
quote
@info string($(QuoteNode(expr)), " = ", $expr)
end
end
Then, you can use it directly:
julia> @infoshow message
[ Info: message= hola
Edit: In that case, you are limited to only use one variable at the same time, I do not know enough of macros to make it as good as original @show macro.