From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2004-06-14T02:08:51+09:00
Subject: Re: String#==

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 01:20:16 +0900, Charles Mills <cmills@freeshell.org> wrote:
> 
> String#== returns nil when the object being compared does not have a
> "to_str" method.
> For example:
> irb> "hey" == 1
> => nil
> Is that correct?


I'm in no way authoritative, but it makes sense to me.  If you're
trying to see if a String is "equal" to something that cant be
converted to a string, 'nil' (as false) seems logical.