On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 04:28 AM, Joseph F. Ryan wrote: > Brent Dax wrote > >> To tell you the truth, I don't consider arrayrefs references anymore. >> They're just Array objects that don't happen to be in @whatever >> symbols. >> I don't know if this is the official view, but that fits my brain >> better. >> > > So you're saying that classes should stringify to a pretty-print of > their public members? How about something like what Ruby's irb does? % irb irb(main):001:0> class Foo irb(main):002:1> def initialize irb(main):003:2> @a, @b, @c = 1, 2, 3 irb(main):004:2> end irb(main):005:1> end nil irb(main):006:0> Foo.new #<Foo:0x2767a4 @c=3, @b=2, @a=1> irb(main):007:0>Thread Previous | Thread Next