From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-12-17T15:42:18+09:00
Subject: Re: String#dump and quotes

Daniel Berger wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, why are double quotes added to the start and end
> of the string when doing String#dump?  I can see where it's happening
> in string.c, but I don't understand the purpose.

I think it's just for looks, to emphasize that it's a string.
Like String#inspect.

FWIW, I think if you eval a dump, you get the original string back.
I *think* that's correct. But it may be just a side effect.


Hal