show( item )

Shows the supplied item. Showing is just programmer oriented printing.

:-) show( 56 );
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The above example is not a mistake, the show function doesn't print a newline at the end, so any subsequent output will be displayed directly afterwards. For show with a newline after, see showln.

Supplied items are shown in different ways, depending on their type. In this respect the function behaves in exactly the same way as the showln function, so please see that documentation for details.