From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-10T14:33:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28062] Re: How does puts decide how to print a given object?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:28052] How does puts decide how to print a given object?"
    on 01/12/10, "Harry Ohlsen" <harryo@zip.com.au> writes:

|This got me to thinking how puts does its conversion to a string.  I ask
|because (a) I'm surprised it doesn't just use to_s and because someone
|reading the article is bound to ask :-).

"puts a" does

  if a is an array
    puts each element of it
  else
    a = a.to_s
    print a
    print "\n" unless a[-1] == ?\n
  end

Use print for simpler behavior.

							matz.