From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-11T02:59:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28112] Re: How does puts decide how to print a given object?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:28082] Re: How does puts decide how to print a given object?"
    on 01/12/10, mengx@nielsenmedia.com <mengx@nielsenmedia.com> writes:

|in the case of a = nil
|a.to_s  ==> ""
|a.inspect  ==> nil
|
|so puts actually calls inspect for output, at least for this one, correct?

Both puts and print convert nil into "nil".  It's special treatment I
forgot to mention.

							matz.