From: Yusuke ENDOH <mame@...>
Date: 2007-12-12T23:56:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Return value of Kernel#p

Hi,

2007/12/12, murphy <murphy@rubychan.de>:
> also, shouldn't display, puts, putc and print share this behavior?
>
> when I understand the idea correctly, it was changed so you can easily
> debug return values, as in:
>
>  def foo
>    calculate_something
>    calculate_result  # prepend with p to return and output the result
>  end
>
> so maybe it doesn't make sense to change the others...except y and j :)

Exactly.  I suggested the behavior for the purpose at [ruby-dev:29736].

This is just for easy debugging, so I agree that the other printing
methods such as puts and print need not be changed.

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Yusuke ENDOH <mame@tsg.ne.jp>