From: Matthew Kerwin <matthew@...>
Date: 2012-07-09T15:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: question: p expression

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:39 AM, smoothedatol412 @gmail.com
> I have come from Java and a few other programming backgrounds and I am
> use to the compiled langs, like C and Java. I like coding things
> out the long way since it is easy to go back later on and easily find
> that bug code that is creating problems for the program.

On 9 July 2012 16:09, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
> While I generally sympathize with that approach (making things
> explicit) I don't agree in this particular case.  You'll find "p var"
> as easily as "puts var.inspect" - but it's far less typing.

Not to mention the convenience (with a single extra require) of
changing "p var" to "pp var", especially in the absence of
var.pretty_inspect

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