From: cjon@... (Cullen J O'neill)
Date: 2000-12-01T07:10:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6684] Re: printing/accessing arrays and hashes

Raja S. (raja@cs.indiana.edu) wrote:
[...]
>           Shouldn't 
>
>           [[1,2], [3,4]] . join(", ")   #-> "[[1,2], [3,4]]"
>
>           be the preferred behavior 


The problem with showing structure in join seems to me to be that

"Hello World".split(" ").join(" ") #-> "Hello World"

would get broken.  I for one would prefer not to have:

"Hello World".split(" ").join(" ") #-> "[Hello World]"

I personally have no problem using arr.inpect when I want to pretty
print an array. 

Maybe prety_print could be aliased to inspect?  <1/2 wink>


Cullen J O'Neill
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