[ruby-talk:4620] Re: Object#inspect

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:4612] Object#inspect"
    on 00/08/28, Mathieu Bouchard <[e-mail]> writes:

|A suggestion regarding Object#inspect:
|
|I feel that the Object#inspect feature should be unfolded into several
|procedures. Currently the code for inspect seems to be mostly in the Array
|and Hash classes/files, and the entry point seems to be only the
|Object#inspect method. This seems bad for those trying to implement
|containers. Also this is bad for when you don't want to show certain
|fields in an inspect.

Hmm, I think inspect is an inspect is an inspect. 

Currently, we have to_s the standard stringify method, inspect the
debugging stringify method.  It's possible to have several other
methods, for example, one to generate eval reproducing string.

If you need your fancy stringify method, you can define it by
yourself.  If it's good enough, I'd love to add new method to the core
in the future version.

							matz.