From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2004-02-13T01:05:01+09:00
Subject: pp equiv of #inspect


i often use


  raise SomeError, "object was <#{ object.inspect }>"

and similar

what would be the eqiv methods using pretty_print? i would like to do
something like

  raise SomeError, "object was <#{ object.pretty_print_inspect }>"

but that obviously does not work.

what i am after is a method on object, or that takes an object, which returns
as a string the output that pp(object) would have produced.  i know i can do
PP.pp(obj, port) but am looking for something shorter...

-a
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