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[nit.git] / lib / standard / string.nit

diff --git a/lib/standard/string.nit b/lib/standard/string.nit
index d61b260..bcd0445 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/standard/string.nit
+++ b/lib/standard/string.nit
@@ -398,20 +398,25 @@ redef class Object
        # User redeable representation of `self'.
        fun to_s: String do return inspect
 
+       # The class name of the object in NativeString format.
+       private fun native_class_name: NativeString is intern
+
+       # The class name of the object.
+       # FIXME: real type information is not available at runtime. Therefore, for instance, an instance of List[Bool] has just "List" for classname
+       fun class_name: String do return new String.from_cstring(native_class_name)
+
        # Developper readable representation of `self'.
        # Usualy, it uses the form "<CLASSNAME:#OBJECTID bla bla bla>"
        fun inspect: String
        do
-               var r = inspect_head
-               # r.add('>')
-               return r
+               return "<{inspect_head}>"
        end
 
-       # Return "<CLASSNAME:#OBJECTID".
-       # This fuction is mainly used with the redefinition of the inspect(0) method
+       # Return "CLASSNAME:#OBJECTID".
+       # This fuction is mainly used with the redefinition of the inspect method
        protected fun inspect_head: String
        do
-               return "<{object_id.to_hex}"
+               return "{class_name}:#{object_id.to_hex}"
        end
 
        protected fun args: Sequence[String]