From: "Anders Engström" <aengstrom@...>
Date: 2005-02-14T09:03:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing why's (poignant) guide to ruby

On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:19:57AM +0900, William James wrote:
> 
> Michael Walter wrote:
> > The Ruby user would think "Who puts?" :-)
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > Anders Engstr�m <aengstrom@gnejs.net> wrote:
> > > Ruby:
> > > 
> > > (hello.rb)
> > > puts "Hello World"
> 
> "Hello, world!".display
> 

Ok, that's probably more intuitive :) But not if you want to achieve the
same effect as 'puts'. Then you'd have to change it to:

    "Hello World!\n".display

That '\n' is pretty confusing for a newbie.

//Anders

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