Hello, how to represent a simple value as a syntactically correct string? for example, this is i do represent(s::Symbol)::String = "Symbol(\"$s\")" represent(:abc) # -> "Symbol("abs")" # but have a bug Symbol("\\\"a") != @eval $(Meta.parse(represent(Symbol("\\\"a"))))

How to represent a value as a syntactically correct string

cjdoris March 10, 2022, 8:39am 2

repr does what you want, on most built-in types at least.

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