How to display Float64 with many digits in Julia 0.7

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This question was posed and answered for Julia 0.6 here.
In Julia 0.7, the same code does not solve the problem:

julia> VERSION
v"0.7.0-beta.65"

julia> v = rand(3)
3-element Array{Float64,1}:
 0.06063439006332505
 0.34977333069792294
 0.9028104608355858 

julia> show(IOContext(stdout, :compact=>false), v)
[0.0606344, 0.349773, 0.90281]

How can I get show to display the non-compact output?

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julia> show(IOContext(STDOUT, :compact => false, :limit => false), v)
[0.24458155261742687, 0.06301413396925781, 0.516253732800271]
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Thanks a lot!

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And what about custom types?

julia> struct MyType{T}
           v :: Vector{T}
       end

julia> a = MyType{Float64}(randn(5))
MyType{Float64}([-0.761001, 0.979279, 1.58786, -0.574857, 0.309297])

julia> show(IOContext(stdout, :compact => false, :limit => false), a)
MyType{Float64}([-0.761001, 0.979279, 1.58786, -0.574857, 0.309297])

julia> show(IOContext(stdout, :compact => false, :limit => false), a.v)
[-0.761001, 0.979279, 1.58786, -0.574857, 0.309297]
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The :limit property shouldn’t influence the number of printed digits. It seems to me that the requested possibility has been disabled in #24651. I will double-check and make a PR if needed.

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Thanks @rfourquet for taking a look on this.

I am not sure, but as far as I can trace this down (for the example above), I think the problem is related to this method of show. There, :compact => true is set, perhaps overwriting what may be defined by the context of io. Is this correct?

As a side remark, the hack proposed here actually works:

julia> Base.show(io::IO, x::Union{Float64,Float32}) = Base.Grisu._show(io, x, Base.Grisu.SHORTEST, 0, true, false)

julia> a = MyType{Float64}(randn(5))
MyType{Float64}([-1.449833577704765, -0.10839395960990496, 3.141203529351768, 0.7843448324558726, -1.3296269838447883])
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Yes your analysis is correct, thanks for the report! PR at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/27850

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Thanks a lot!

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