From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2011-10-19T07:13:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Return

Sam Duncan wrote in post #1027273:
> On 19/10/11 08:32, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Darryl L. Pierce<mcpierce@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> The goal of puts is to output text to the console.
>> To be technical: It provides output to the OS's standard output
>> facility.
>
> $stdout = File.new('/dev/null', 'w')
> puts "ohai, I am my OS's standard output facility O_o"

Which actually goes to show: puts *doesn't* send output to the OS's 
standard output facility.

Rather, it sends it to the $stdout object, which is initialised to an IO 
object wrapping the OS's standard output, but may be changed to point to 
a different IO object.

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