String#dump and quotes

[Daniel Berger]

Just out of curiosity, why are double quotes added to the start and end
of the string when doing String#dump? I can see where it's happening
in string.c, but I don't understand the purpose.

Thanks,

Dan

 

[Hal Fulton]

Just out of curiosity, why are double quotes added to the start and end
of the string when doing String#dump? I can see where it's happening
in string.c, but I don't understand the purpose.

I think it's just for looks, to emphasize that it's a string.
Like String#inspect.

FWIW, I think if you eval a dump, you get the original string back.
I *think* that's correct. But it may be just a side effect.


Hal

 

[Eero Saynatkari]

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[Hal Fulton]

I assumed that _was_ the point of the quotes and the escaping it does ?

It may well be. I've just never seen that documented.

I've rarely used dump anyway.


Hal

 

[Hal Fulton]

Hi,

At Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:42:18 +0900,
Hal Fulton wrote in [ruby-talk:171286]:

I think it's just for looks, to emphasize that it's a string.
Like String#inspect.

#dump ignores $KCODE, whereas #inspect is affected by it.

Very interesting. If I ever knew that, I forgot it.

That is the sort of information I am looking for as I learn more
about I18N.


Hal