As you can see we have some duplication of the semicolons:
julia> (ones(3,1),)
([1.0; 1.0; 1.0],)
julia> (centered(ones(3,1)),)
([1.0; ; 1.0; ; 1.0],)
EDIT: doing println also doesn't work
julia> println(centered(ones(3,1)))
[1.0; ; 1.0; ; 1.0]
julia> println(ones(3,1))
[1.0; 1.0; 1.0]