From: hipster <hipster@...4all.nl>
Date: 2000-12-02T21:03:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6741] Re: printing/accessing arrays and hashes

On Sat, 02 Dec 2000  02:08:58 +0900, Aleksi Niemel� wrote:
> Matz says:
> > 'inspect' is for human readable representation.  
> > Probably we have to have either
> > 
> >   (a) `inspect' like method without length limit, which probably gives
> >       eval reproducing string.
> > 
> >   (b) removing length limit from String#inspect.
> 
> I'd love to see inspecting to have some warp on it's evolution. Basically
> these are the notes and ideas I currently have for it.

Just an idea: introduce a Visitor pattern. The default implementation
gives the current inspect behavior, and the user can override it for
any specific representations.

	Michel