Hi, I want to capture the returned string from a dispatched show function on my customized type, but somehow it always returns an empty string: struct MyType end a = MyType() Base.show(io::IO, ::MyType) = println("hello") b = repr(a) # b == "" What should be the right way to this?

[image] henry2004y: println("hello") This should be println(io, "hello").

Capture returned string from show

sijo May 14, 2021, 8:59am 2

This should be println(io, "hello").

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