From ac48714ada88c26fc98a7871cc0e9a3aaaeaa3c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:22:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] prototype: Make Object.inspect more robust.

---
 CHANGELOG           | 2 ++
 src/base.js         | 2 +-
 test/unit/base.html | 1 +
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 3329d7f..079a069 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Make Object.inspect more robust. [Tobie Langel]
+
 * Add a description to :test and :dist rake tasks. [Christoph Sturm]
 
 * Fix Selector.matchElements to allow for coma-separated selectors in Element#up/next/previous and Event#findElement. [Samuel Lebeau, Tobie Langel]
diff --git a/src/base.js b/src/base.js
index 6629914..9884aaf 100644
--- a/src/base.js
+++ b/src/base.js
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Object.extend(Object, {
     try {
       if (Object.isUndefined(object)) return 'undefined';
       if (object === null) return 'null';
-      return object.inspect ? object.inspect() : object.toString();
+      return object.inspect ? object.inspect() : String(object);
     } catch (e) {
       if (e instanceof RangeError) return '...';
       throw e;
diff --git a/test/unit/base.html b/test/unit/base.html
index 07e9632..9828428 100644
--- a/test/unit/base.html
+++ b/test/unit/base.html
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@
       assertEqual('null', Object.inspect(null));
       assertEqual("'foo\\\\b\\\'ar'", Object.inspect('foo\\b\'ar'));
       assertEqual('[]', Object.inspect([]));
+      assertNothingRaised(function() { Object.inspect(window.Node) });
     }},
     
     testObjectToJSON: function() { with(this) {