From: Paul Battley <pbattley@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T07:38:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Puts bypasses access restrictions on to_s?

On 28/07/06, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I read somewhere that "puts" calls "to_s" on an object to get a string
> representation and then displays that. This seems to be correct in my
> experience.
>
> My question is: how does puts bypass "private" restrictions to get the
> value of to_s?

Interesting question. I had a look at the C source, and it uses
rb_funcall, which doesn't check private/protected, to call to_s.

If you want to do the same thing, you can use this:
rs.__send__(:to_s)

Paul.