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telemachos on Nov 28, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python)

I'm not sure why this is bugging me, but p and puts are not the same thing in Ruby. In most non-debugging contexts, p 'hello world' would be odd since it would print the string for inspection (i.e. with the string literal quotes around it), no?

djacobs on Nov 28, 2010 [–]

Yes, that's true. And since I used println in the Java example, I guess I should switch the Ruby example to puts. Will do that now.

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