From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-02-18T20:59:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11048] Re: to_s and <<

----- Original Message ----- 
From: David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 1:21 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:11042] Re: to_s and <<

[snip]

> 
> I notice, though, that the pickaxe book gives the argument type for
> String#<< as aFixnum or anObject (not aString), and in string.c there
> does seem to be some conversion going on:
> 

[snip C code]

> 
> And yet, this can't be the whole story, since the TypeErrors do
> happen.  Further detective work (and/or clarification by those ahead
> of me in the process :-) required....
> 
> 

I've wondered about this too... Dave, could this be considered a bug
in The Book?

Hal Fulton