I felt that the old print statement sometimes was handy when I wanted to quickly throw some debugging lines into the code -- just less hassle with parentheses.

I felt that the old print statement sometimes was handy when I wanted to quickly throw some debugging lines into the code -- just less hassle with parentheses. But I wouldn't want any of the ambiguity GvR's suggestion would bring. For debugging comfort the print statement is half measures anyway: Give us Julia's @show macro!