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net -- format for printing, as a net

Description

This function is the primary function called upon by << to format expressions for printing. The default method provided by the system is to convert o to an Expression with expression and then to convert that to a Net.

A new method for formatting expressions of type T may be installed as follows:

net T := x -> ...

The function provided by the user should return a Net or a String.

There are various such methods for formatting, but we don't document them separately.

See also

Ways to use net:

For the programmer

The object net is a method function with a single argument.


The source of this document is in Macaulay2Doc/functions/net-doc.m2:73:0.