Ruby Issue Tracking System

08/15/2019

09:02 PM Ruby Revision 9d2fed2c (git): Don't echo results of assignment expressions

onlynone (Steven Willis)

08/06/2019

11:15 AM Ruby Revision 1ee88c51 (git): Don't echo results of assignment expressions

onlynone (Steven Willis)

03/27/2019

08:43 PM Ruby Feature #15724: Optionally suppress output from IRB for assignment expressions

Thanks to some feedback on the [PR](https://github.com/ruby/irb/pull/12), I've updated it to use [Ripper](https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.6.2/libdoc/ripper/rdoc/Ripper.html), so it doesn't rely on internals of CRuby ([RubyVM](https://ruby-... onlynone (Steven Willis)

03/22/2019

09:18 PM Ruby Feature #15724: Optionally suppress output from IRB for assignment expressions

shevegen (Robert A. Heiler) wrote:
> I don't know if the original suggestion is good as is, but I think it is an interesting idea to support
> ...
The only option is `@context.echo` which turns all echo-ing on or off.
> I don't thin... onlynone (Steven Willis)

09:14 PM Ruby Feature #15724: Optionally suppress output from IRB for assignment expressions

alanwu (Alan Wu) wrote:
> You can type `a = 1; nil` to stop irb from calling inspect on the assignment expression result, just FYI.
Yes, this feature is so that one doesn't have to remember to do that after each expression they would... onlynone (Steven Willis)

02:42 PM Ruby Feature #15724 (Open): Optionally suppress output from IRB for assignment expressions

Most REPLs I've used don't print out the output of assignment expressions like `a = 1`. Being able to suppress this output is very useful when you have a string which is essentially a blob, an object with a large string representation, ... onlynone (Steven Willis)

02:19 PM Ruby Feature #15371: IRB with ARGV

svnpenn (Steven Penny) wrote:
> shevegen (Robert A. Heiler) wrote:
> ...
It's actually only 1 way. The `--` is just a command line option/argument parsing convention to mark an explicit break between options and arguments. It's useful ... onlynone (Steven Willis)