From: Matthew Bloch <matthew@...>
Date: 2010-12-05T12:44:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Verbosity of p

On 05/12/10 02:55, Johny Why wrote:
> hello
>
> why does:
> puts "Inspect:#{p(myDog)}"
>
> give LESS verbose results than:
>
> p(myDog)
>
> ?
>
> is it that p returns an array, and puts only prints the first element of
> arrays?

"p x" is a shorthand for "puts x.inspect", i.e. it actually does the 
printing.  The "inspect" method is what actually returns a "verbose" 
string.  I suspect the intent of your first statement was:

   puts "Inspect:#{myDog.inspect}"

If you call p during a string interpolation, you can expect the output 
to appear before the whole strong you've asked it to print, which is 
probably not what you wanted.

-- 
Matthew