From: Jonas Bulow <jonas.bulow@...>
Date: 2001-02-19T04:56:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11061] Re: to_s and <<

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:11053] Re: to_s and <<"
>     on 01/02/18, "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:
> 
> |I've never really understood the relationship between
> |to_s and to_str (or similarly between to_a and to_ary).
> 
> 'to_s' is a mean to convert something into a string (if you really
> want to), OTOH 'to_str' is a mean for something that wants to pretend
> to be a string. to_a and to_ary are in similar relationship.

Wouldn't name like "as_str" and "to_str" make more sense?