showcompact() docstring outdated?

[nalimilan]

The docstring for showcompact still says that it's used to avoid repeating type information, but AFAIK this is no longer the case since we now use the typeinfo property for that (#24651).

@rfourquet Is that right?

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  showcompact(x)
  showcompact(io::IO, x)

  Show a compact representation of a value to io. If io is not specified, the
  default is to print to STDOUT.

  This is used for printing array elements without repeating type information
  (which would be redundant with that printed once for the whole array), and
  without line breaks inside the representation of an element.

  To offer a compact representation different from its standard one, a custom
  type should test get(io, :compact, false) in its normal show method.

[stevengj]

Should we just deprecate showcompact in favor of show(IOContext(io, .....appropriate options....), x)?

[nalimilan]

That would make sense. showcompact is not really meant to be called directly AFAIK.

[rfourquet]

@rfourquet Is that right?

Yes

[nalimilan]

Filed #26080 to deprecate showcompact.