From: Sam Duncan <sduncan@...>
Date: 2011-10-19T07:21:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Return

On 19/10/11 11:13, Brian Candler wrote:
> 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.
>
Indeed ;]