From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-10-21T08:24:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#to_s in Ruby 1.9 Head

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 06:34 +0900, gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:
> Mauricio Fernandez writes in http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in 
> +Ruby+1.9+update+5
> that Ruby 1.9 Head has changed Array#to_s to be an alias for  
> Array#to_inspect.
> 
> What is the motivation for that change?
> 	print a
> becomes
> 	a.each { |x| print x }
> 
> It seems like an unnecessary change that takes away a very nice  
> default behavior.

FWIW I find I need 'puts ary.inspect' much more often than 'puts ary',
so I think this is a good change.

-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk