From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-08-14T08:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd behaviour of custom "inspect" method


On Aug 13, 2008, at 14:21 , John Winters wrote:

> 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
> => "...."

wfm:

 >> a = Padding.new
=> ....
 >> a.inspect
=> "...."
 >> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.6"