From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-11-19T08:57:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbol#inspect bug?

On Nov 18, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Dominik Bathon wrote:

> Symbol#inspect should return a valid symbol literal, right?

Not according to the RDoc:

$ ri Object#inspect
--------------------------------------------------------- Object#inspect
      obj.inspect   => string
------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Returns a string containing a human-readable representation of
      _obj_. If not overridden, uses the +to_s+ method to generate the
      string.

         [ 1, 2, 3..4, 'five' ].inspect   #=> "[1, 2, 3..4, \"five\"]"
         Time.new.inspect                 #=> "Wed Apr 09 08:54:39  
CDT 2003"

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