From: nobu@...
Date: 2016-03-15T02:30:30+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:74318] [Ruby trunk Bug#12174][Rejected] Interpolation ignores `to_s` (and `inspect`) when `to_s` is defined to `nil`.

Issue #12174 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada.

Status changed from Open to Rejected

Yes, to be interpolated into a string, `to_s` must return a string.
Non-string object cannot be concatenated to a string.

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Bug #12174: Interpolation ignores `to_s` (and `inspect`) when `to_s` is defined to `nil`.
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12174#change-57438

* Author: Tsuyoshi Sawada
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* ruby -v: 
* Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN
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When `to_s` is defined to return `nil`, interpolation prints the original inspection.

~~~RUBY
class A
  def to_s; end
end

puts "#{A.new}" # => #<A:0x007f4edf19d720>
~~~

It even ignores an overwritten `inspect` definition.


~~~RUBY
class A
  def to_s; end
  def inspect; "foo" end
end

puts "#{A.new}" # => #<A:0x007f8176c09050>
~~~



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