From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-11-12T07:46:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Backslash substitution question

Ron Coutts wrote:
> Hal, what did you mean by 'calling p'?

The p method is similar to puts or print, but it invokes
the 'inspect' method on the object, so it's displayed
in a specialized (or user-defined) way.

   p "\\"      # "\\"
   puts "\\"   # \

Useful for debugging, especially if you create "pretty"
inspect methods.

Hal