From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-11-30T21:38:11+09:00
Subject: Re: #p is to #inspect as #pp is to ?



On Nov 30, 2:58 am, "Michael Fellinger" <m.fellin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2007 4:17 PM, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Nov 30, 1:17 am, "Daniel Sheppard" <dani...@pronto.com.au> wrote:
> > > > I have this as a lone method, but it seems to me there should already
> > > > be a way to do this with the 'pp' lib. (If not perhaps we could add
> > > > it?)
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> > > I believe that pp calls Object#pretty_print - the source will tell you
> > > more.
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> > I looked at that and didn't see how that would help. As it says...
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> > "To define your customized pretty printing function for your classes,
> > redefine a method pretty_print(pp) in the class. It takes an argument
> > pp which is an instance of the class PP. The method should use
> > PP#text, PP#breakable, PP#nest, PP#group and PP#pp to print the
> > object."
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> > Don't see off-hand how that can help easily get a string of what it
> > would output.
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> Sorry, i had the wrong method in mind, what you want is most likely
> Object#pretty_inspect
> Example:
> puts (1..30).to_a.pretty_inspect
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> Does that help?

w00t! w00t!

thanks manveru!

T.