Hello. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 05:07:47PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote: > I'd rather provide a custom #inspect method for objects which may > contain potentially large volumes of data. Nobody can read that > anyway when printed on console or somewhere else. I agree with you: if I am going to print out a big object to the console, it's better to provide a custom #inspect in order to generate a nice summary. However, I find it odd that I *must* write such a method for all big objects, regardless of whether I'm ever going to print them out or not -- because otherwise my program may eventually freeze for up to a few minutes doing the very complicated task of telling me that some method didn't exist :) -- Adiel Mittmann