From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2004-08-27T18:53:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Pretty Printing more widely

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Tanaka Akira wrote:

> In article <Pine.GSO.4.60.0408261219410.26692@brains>,
>  Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> My patch would allow
>>
>>      pp greetings
>>      fp.pp greetings
>
> Since IO#pp hinder calling Kernel#pp from a subclass of IO,  I against
> IO#pp.

That is only true because pp is private, isn't it?  I can do 
x = [1,2,3]
Kernel.p x
but I can't do 
Kernel.pp x
Why does pp need to be private?


> --
> Tanaka Akira
>
         Hugh