Syste::String is not a basic Ruby type. Tomas
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Meinrad Recheis Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Comparing CLR strings and Ruby strings - a slightly surprising behaviour Well, it slightly relates to syntax ... because basic ruby types (string, numeric, array, hash, range, etc.) use to print valid ruby syntax on inspect. This is very useful for reinterpreting values stored as strings by the use of inspect. -- henon On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Tomas Matousek <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This is not about syntax. This is just what System::String#inspect prints out. Tomas -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Tinco Andringa Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 6:26 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Comparing CLR strings and Ruby strings - a slightly surprising behaviour Wouldn't using different syntax especially for clr just amount to creating a new language instead of implementing Ruby on the dlr? (Not to mention a language that's not very intuitive) On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 23:00, Orion Edwards <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I like backticks more than single quotes, but ideally you'd just have the > same quotes and make them red or something for clr strings. > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Pete Bacon Darwin > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> How about back ticks? `Some string`? >> >> Since ruby can have single quote string literals it might not be that >> obvious that 'Some string' it is not a normal Ruby string. >> >> Pete >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] >> On Behalf Of Tomas Matousek >> Sent: Thursday,05 March 05, 2009 21:03 >> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Comparing CLR strings and Ruby strings - a >> slightly surprising behaviour >> >> I'm going to use single quotes for formatting CLR strings via inspect. >> "clr:" prefix is too long and it gets in your way when working mostly with >> CLR strings. >> >> >>> "Some string" >> => "Some string" >> >>> "Some string".to_clr_string >> => 'Some string' >> >> Sounds good? >> >> Tomas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ironruby-core mailing list >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
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