From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2007-02-23T19:20:12+09:00
Subject: Re: puts nil

On 2007-02-22, S. Robert James <srobertjames@gmail.com> wrote:

> puts nil outputs "nil".  Shouldn't it output "" (ie, nothing), which
> is nil.to_s?

The source code specifically checks for the nil object and outputs
"nil" instead of nil.to_s .  It's clearly a deliberate decision by the
developers to make nil a special case.  The docs don't mention it, and
I agree that they should.

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty