Can I disable overloaded Base.show() and print the raw form of an object?

[stevengj]

@greatpet

Can I print it using the default Base.show(), ignoring my own custom definitions which print prettier results but may hide details useful for debugging?

You can use invoke(show, Tuple{IO,Any}, stdout, x) to invoke the default show(::IO, ::Any) method instead of any overloaded definition for x:

julia> invoke(show, Tuple{IO,Any}, stdout, pi)
Irrational{:π}()

Alternatively, you can call Base.show_default(io, x) (which happens to be what show(::IO, ::Any) calls), but invoke is the more general technique to call a less-specific method.