Why ruby has to_s and inspect?
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The p calls inspect, and puts/print calls to_s for representing its object.
If I run
class Graph def initialize @nodeArray = Array.new @wireArray = Array.new end def to_s # called with print / puts "Graph : #{@nodeArray.size}" end def inspect # called with p "G" end end if __FILE__ == $0 gr = Graph.new p gr print gr puts gr end
I get
G Graph : 0Graph : 0
Then, why does ruby has two functions do the same thing? What makes the difference between to_s and inspect?
If I comment out the to_s or inspect function, I get as follows.
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