From: John Winters <john@...>
Date: 2008-08-14T06:21:53+09:00
Subject: Odd behaviour of custom "inspect" method

Can anyone explain this for me?

john@liberty:~/Work/Coding/Xronos/test$ cat testpadding.rb
class Padding

  def inspect
     '.' * 4
  end

end
john@liberty:~/Work/Coding/Xronos/test$ irb -r testpadding.rb
>> a = Padding.new
=> ......
>> a.inspect
=> "...."
>> 

The inspect method seems to return a string consisting of 4 full stops,
and yet irb displays six.  Why?  If inspect returns a string of any
other letter it seems to work as expected.

John
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