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puts nil

S. Robert James

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02-22-2007

puts nil outputs "nil". Shouldn't it output "" (ie, nothing), which
is nil.to_s?

RDoc (for IO#print, referenced by #puts):
Objects that aren't strings will be converted by calling their to_s
method

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