[MacRuby-devel] NSObject.to_s question

Jordan Breeding jordan.breeding at me.com
Wed May 5 18:15:43 PDT 2010


Yeah, I was doing something similar right now, just hoping for a better long term solution in MacRuby.

On May 05, 2010, at 20:11, B. Ohr wrote:

> Jordan,
> 
> you can do something like that:
> 
> class Object
>  alias :old_inspect :inspect
> 
>  def inspect
>    i = old_inspect
>    if i.start_with?('#<')
>      d = description
>      d.start_with?('<') ? i : d
>    else
>      i
>    end
>  end
> end
> 
> But you’re right, a better integration of „description“ would be nice.
> 
> Bernd
> 
> 
> Am 05.05.2010 um 22:30 schrieb Jordan Breeding:
> 
>> Right now for custom objects on the Objective-C side even if you provide a -[Object description] call to_s will fall through and hit to_s from NSObject which right now just has the class name and pointer.
>> 
>> Is it already planned for the future to use the description method in to_s on the MacRuby side? Should I file a bug report?
>> 
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