From: Abder-Rahman Ali <abder.rahman.ali@...>
Date: 2010-08-23T23:08:15+09:00
Subject: Class initialization

This is an example similar to the one here:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/56755

class  Foo
   def initialize
     @var = "var"
   end
   def to_s
     "This is a customized string"
   end
end

var = Foo.new

puts var

There are some scenarios I'm doing here:

1- When I remove "def to_s" method, and for "puts var", I change it as
follows:

puts var.to_s

Result: #<Foo:0x273a8>

2- in "def to_s":

def to_s
@var
end

Result: var

3- Running the code as it is shown at the top.

Result: "This is a customized string"

4- Without "def to_s".

Result: #<Foo:0x273f8>

The most parts that are confusing me here are scenarios (1) and (4). Why
are the following results? And, what do those results mean by the way?

Thanks.
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