Jeremy Henty
2/23/2007 10:19:00 AM
On 2007-02-22, S. Robert James <srobertjames@gmail.com> wrote:
> puts nil outputs "nil". Shouldn't it output "" (ie, nothing), which
> is nil.to_s?
The source code specifically checks for the nil object and outputs
"nil" instead of nil.to_s . It's clearly a deliberate decision by the
developers to make nil a special case. The docs don't mention it, and
I agree that they should.
Regards,
Jeremy Henty