From: Benoit Daloze <redmine@...>
Date: 2010-01-20T19:26:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:27633] [Feature #2152] Split functionality of Float#inspect and Float#to_s

Issue #2152 has been updated by Benoit Daloze.


Hi dear Ruby creator !
|Hi,
|I am not against provide both ways to represent float numbers, but I am
|not sure to assign which behavior to which name, or to add a new
|method.  We need to investigate more on names.
|						matz.
I don't know exactly why, but it seems very clear to me to have the pretty style at #to_s and the complete, full representation with #inspect.

The fact is I really don't like to write things like '%.2f' % 2.34 (it sounds so old), I would love to simply do "My Float: #{f}".
About inspect, it's the representation used by default in irb, and then is very useful to see the full representation when playing with Float. It's also what Kernel#p uses.

Well, many classes that implements both are more complete in #inspect, and shorter in #to_s. #to_s is, as I think, for printing, while #inspect is more for debugging, or printing a complete representation. (Rational, Complex, String, Array(in 1.8), Hash, Encoding, the default inspect(Kernel#inspect,undocumented))
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