From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-11-30T21:52:47+09:00
Subject: Re: to_s, inspect, etc.

Giulio Piancastelli ha scritto:
> Florian Gross wrote:
> 
> 
>>itsme213 wrote:
>>
>>>Are to_s, inspect, etc. defined more-or-less consistently for the
> 
> library
> 
>>>classes? Are they used consistently by the various tools like irb,
> 
> debug,
> 
>>>test/unit, breakpoint, etc?
>>
>>.inspect is usually used for debug purposes and .to_s for end-user
>>purposes.
> 
> 
> So, why does [1,2,3].to_s give '123' and [1,2,3].inspect give '[1, 2,
> 3]' as answers? Not a really end-user answer, the one given by
> Array#to_s, isn't it? The inspect method here is much more end-user
> oriented: why is that?
> 
> Regards,
> Giulio Piancastelli.
>