From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-12-04T02:04:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Inconsistency while playing with Symbol in IRB

>>>>> "M" == Mills Thomas (app1tam) <app1tam@ups.com> writes:

M> Can I assume that the following inconsistency (See the diff between cmd 1
M> and cmd 2) has something to do with the eval-print loop in IRB and not
M> something internal to Ruby (after all, cmd 3 works)?

 no,

M> -----------------------------------------------------------------
M> irb(main):021:0> print "some string with blanks".intern
M> some string with blanksnil

  #print call #to_s

pigeon% ruby -e 'p :name.to_s'
"name"
pigeon% 

M> irb(main):022:0> p ("some string with blanks".intern)
M> :some string with blanks

 #p call #inspect

pigeon% ruby -e 'puts :name.inspect'
:name
pigeon% 



Guy Decoux