From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2007-06-30T02:17:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Issue related to class initialization and irb

First off, thanks to Stefano, Chris, and Dan. inspect was what I was looking 
for and I have it printing what I would like.

quoth the Dan Stevens (IAmAI):
> Does anyone know why the value returned by Object#object_id is
> different to the value returned by the 'new' method? Is one hex and
> the other is not?

This is a follow-up question for me as well. Even when the object_id value is 
represented in hex it does not match the default output. I guess the default 
value is the object's address in memory or somesuch?

Looking through 'Object', 'Kernel', and a few others in the Pickaxe book, I 
can find no relevant method (which doesn't mean it isn't there ;)). Is there 
a way to get this value? Does it really matter or is it just cosmetic?

thanks,
-d 
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