whos command

[ViralBShah]

We need a whos command, which shows all global variables.

[JeffBezanson]

We might want to introduce a new standard method to assist with this, like summary(x). This would default to show(typeof(x)) but would give more details for arrays and maybe other things.

[StefanKarpinski]

There's already dump(x) which shows the type and the fields for composite types and mostly fails for other types.

[StefanKarpinski]

This is really a two-part issue:

1. providing the ability to list all globally bound names.
2. providing functionality that uses this ability to summarize what the globally bound names are bound to.

[JeffBezanson]

dump to me is more of a debugging thing; it shows you everything. Here we want a concise readable summary like "2x2 Float64 Array".

[StefanKarpinski]

Ok, I see what you're saying. And then whos would just print the summaries for all the bound globals? Seems reasonable.

[arvicco]

Seems like whos is not working out of the box in either webRepl or terminal:

julia> whos()
in whos: io not defined
in whos at show.jl:450

Version 0.0.0+85010126.recc1

[StefanKarpinski]

That's been fixed. Update your repo, pls.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Ar Vicco <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Seems like whos is not working out of the box in either webRepl or
terminal:

julia> whos()
in whos: io not defined
in whos at show.jl:450

Version 0.0.0+85010126.recc1

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[arvicco]

Ah I see. One more downside of non-packaged install I guess. ;)