From: Tom Baker <tbaker@...>
Date: 2000-12-04T17:10:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6797] Re: using join()

I'm not sure the objects have names. They certainly have types and object
ids. You can get those by substituting obj.name below with any of  -
obj.class, obj.type, obj.to_s, obj.id or obj.inspect.

"Joseph McDonald" <joe@vpop.net> wrote in message
news:t2mci54mge564e@news.supernews.com...

> Here's a prob I just tumbled into.  During debugging
> it would be cool to do something like:
>
>
> def printvars (args)
>   args.each do |obj|
>      print obj.name, "=", obj, "\n";
>   end
> end
>
> urls = ["hello", "world"]
> text = "world!"
> printvars([urls, text])
>
> but I can't seem to get the objects name.
>
> thanks,
> -joe