From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2004-11-25T20:55:16+09:00
Subject: Re: prettyprint or pp questions

>>>>> "H" == Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

H> 1. Redirect the output to another IO -- something like
H>         STDERR.pp obj

  PP.pp(obj, STDERR) # or change $>


H> 2. Retrieve the text without printing it (analogous to #inspect):
H>         str = obj.pretty    # or whatever
 
   str = ""; PP.pp(obj, str)


H> 3. Add pp functionality to the Date class. This doesn't work:

H>          class Date
H>            def pretty_print(obj)
H>              inspect

                obj.pp(inspect)

H>            end
H>          end


Guy Decoux