From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-06-11T23:55:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23808] Re: suggestion for string concatenation [RCR]

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:23807] suggestion for string concatenation [RCR]"
    on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:01:01 +0900, Roger Pack <rogerdpack@gmail.com> writes:

|It would save a number of keystrokes (and make code less .to_s'y) if
|strings by default called .to_s on concatenation if the incoming
|object weren't a string.
|
|long_string = "hello" + 1.3
|
|as well as making code look cleaner, at least to this programmer's eyes.

Pre1.0 days Ruby used to convert everything using to_s before
concatenation.  But it tended to delay bugs to be found, so I changed
to the current behavior.  I think there's little chance to regain the
old behavior.

							matz.