From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-02-19T09:13:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11070] Re: to_s and <<

"Hal E. Fulton" <hfulton@austin.rr.com> writes:

> Well, if you look at the << method, it just says it takes "anObject"...
> I don't recall seeing anything about to_str (or to_s) anywhere...

It's talked about on 382, under to_str.

I'm not sure just how many methods rely on to_str to convert their
arguments: I suspect there's a fair number. We recently discovered
that $/ for example can only be assigned from something that
implements to_str.


Dave