console.log()

For when you don't want to think about what language you're using, and just get stuff onto the screen.

arr = [21, -22, [23, 24], "owl", {"eagle": [25]}]
map = {"cat": [31, 32], "dog": 33, 34: "fox"}

console.log("Values:", 1337, arr, map)

Languages

Limitations

• ¹ Arrays and maps must be homogeneous, due to language type restrictions.
• ² console.Log requires a capital L in Go.
• ³ These languages don't support importing file paths. You have to modify the import path.
• ⁴ console.log() with parentheses only accepts a single argument; console.log[] with braces is required for more. (Also, associative arrays break printing on the commandline in Mathematica 10. Old-fashioned lists of Rules still work, though.)

If you know workarounds for these limitations (however hacky!), let me know.

Goals

• Simple import without configuring import paths
• Single console.log() call in lowercase
• Multiple heterogeneous arguments can be passed to console.log(), inc. at the least the following types:
  • Primitive types: integer, string
  • Array/list/vector, preferably heterogeneous
  • Map/dictionary/associative array, preferably heteregeneous key and value types
  • Any value in the language with an associated string serialization (e.g. a toString() implementation)
• Arguments are printed to stdout inline, with a space separator and a trailing newline
  • Where possible (e.g. DevTools JS console), arguments are displayed semantically

Non-Goals

• Print types as similarly to JS as possible.

Run all

make test