From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-11-26T14:21:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Difference between puts and print

From: "andrew delboy" <andrew@cyber.com.au>

> On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:36:26PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> > From: "Stephen Neu" <sneu@iblp.org>
> >
> > > You can also say
> > > p "hello"
> >
> > This differs from #puts calls #to_s on its arguments while #p calls
#inspect.
>
> And print is also an 'inspect' type call?  (ie interrogates the string to see
> if there are escaped characters?)

According to 'ri', #print calls #to_s on non-String arguments.

Gavin