From: nobu@...
Date: 2006-05-30T00:14:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird extension behavior

Hi,

At Wed, 24 May 2006 11:16:03 +0900,
Brian Krahmer wrote in [ruby-talk:194295]:
> As a debugging measure, I had the following code, which works perfectly:
> puts socket.send("hello\n")
> puts socket.recv_line()
> 
> If I take the return from the send and place it in a variable, the code 
> takes exactly three seconds to run, as opposed to nearly instantly:
> foo = socket.send("hello\n")
> puts socket.recv_line()
> 
> This causes it to hang forever:
> socket.send("hello\n")
> puts socket.recv_line()

Some possibilities around puts.

1) it flushes stdout, and it might take effect about buffering.
2) it calls its argument's #to_s method.

-- 
Nobu Nakada