From: James Byrne <byrnejb@...>
Date: 2006-02-23T02:21:16+09:00
Subject: Re: A small refractory problem

Ross Bamford wrote:

> 
> And that you want to be able to pass strings, or other DirectoryThings,
> as the arguments. So if you have:
> 
>         class DirectoryThing
>           def to_s
>             self.path
>           end
>         end
> 
> You can confidently to_s the argument you're passed (as above), rather
> than having to explicitly check what it is - a string will give you
> itself, while a DirectoryThing will give you it's path.
> 
> Just a thought...

And a very good one at that.  I can see that I have much to learn.  This 
approach makes many things very simple.  Thank you.

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