On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 7:13:03 PM UTC-8, Yichao Yu wrote: > > > so, more "stuff" is happening > > within the println() function ... > > No. println/print output the string, show/display prints it as an > object and do so in a way that shows more detail about the string > itself. > Note that the quote isn't part of the string either so it shouldn't be > surprising that the character `$` is printed as `\$` when showing a > quoted string. >
which was my point, print() and println() are doing "stuff" to the string, else they would return the string as defined and as represented by show() ...