Brian Candler
11/6/2004 1:46:00 PM
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd5]
$ ruby -e 'puts nil'
nil
$ ruby -e 'puts nil.to_s'
$
This is strange and seems to conflict with the documentation in ri, which
says:
- Kernel.puts is the same as $stdout.puts
- IO.puts says
Writes the given objects to _ios_ as with +IO#print+.
- IO.print says
Objects that aren't strings will be converted
by calling their +to_s+ method.
So is 'nil' a special case for puts/print? Is the documentation wrong?
Regards,
Brian Candler.