Make Debug.log print in Elm format rather than Elixir format

[wende]

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[dstpierre]

Hey @wende I just discover Elchemy and I'm completely stocked at the idea of using Elm to build app on top of Erlang.

I'd like to start getting familiar with the project and contribute. I've took a look at this issue and I'm not certain what needs to be done.

I found the log function in elchemy-core/elm/Elchemy/XDebug.elm - compared the Elm's Debug.log seems to output the same.

If you can clarify what I'm missing, that would be great.

Thanks

[wende]

@dstpierre Glad to hear that!

The difference is right now, that when you call Debug.log, the printout you see is the underlying Elixir format rather than the Elchemy (Elm) format. So if you were to do

MyType 1 2 "String" |> Debug.log "MyLog"

instead of getting:

MyLog: MyType 1 2 "String"

what you'd get would be:

MyLog: {:my_type, 1, 2, "String"}

Which is the real underlying structure, which - although helpful for debugging in some situations - might be tricky and painful to adjust to when expecting to be able to reason in the structures as you write them