From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-12-04T02:42:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Inconsistency while playing with Symbol in IRB

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:49:41AM +0900, Mills Thomas (app1tam) wrote:
> Can I assume that the following inconsistency (See the diff between cmd 1
> and cmd 2) has something to do with the eval-print loop in IRB and not
> something internal to Ruby (after all, cmd 3 works)?
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> irb(main):021:0> print "some string with blanks".intern
> some string with blanksnil
> 
> irb(main):022:0> p ("some string with blanks".intern)
> :some string with blanks
> nil

p != print

irb(main):001:0> print "bla bla".intern
bla blanil
irb(main):002:0> print ("bla bla".intern)
bla blanil
irb(main):003:0> p "bla bla".intern
:bla bla
nil
irb(main):004:0> p("bla bla".intern)
:bla bla
nil
 
> irb(main):023:0> print "some string with blanks".intern == ("some string
> with blanks".intern) ? "Equal" : "Not Equal"
> Equalnil
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