On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:28 PM, cdm <cdmclean....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 7:23:10 PM UTC-8, Yichao Yu wrote: >> >> fwiw, show does more stuff on the string than either print or println. >> None of them return anything even though print and println does not do >> any stuff on the string. > > > so in the course of what was defined above, > was "a" defined as an "object" or a "string" ? >
Both? I don't see the difference. I'm only saying that `show` does not simply write the string to the stream, but prints the representation of the string object instead, which is the quoted string.
