Zach Dennis
11/26/2003 7:02:00 PM
Thanks Gavri!
-----Original Message-----
From: Gavri Savio Fernandez [mailto:Gavri_F@infosys.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 1:59 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: defining a 'puts' or a 'print' for a class
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zach Dennis [mailto:zdennis@mktec.com]
> Subject: defining a 'puts' or a 'print' for a class
>
> e = Email.new( ...stuff here... )
> puts Email.print
>
>
>
> But I would love to say:
>
> puts Email
>
> to get the same result.
>
if you actually meant
puts e
all you need to do is define the 'to_s' method to return the String you need
to print
class Email
def to_s
"arbitary string"
end
end
puts e
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zach
>
>
Gavri Savio Fernandez
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