From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-23T00:06:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20112] Re: The Ruby Way [was: Ruby Article]

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:20068] Re: The Ruby Way [was: Ruby Article]"
    on 01/08/22, "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

|> |X)  Ask objects to convert themselves
|
|Hmm. Well, it is not my place to disagree with Matz.  :)
|I have done it once or twice before, and I think I always
|ended up seeing that I was mistaken.

Ah, I meant String() and to_s have slightly different role, so that to_s
is not necessarily preferred.  Choose suitable one for each situation.

							matz.