From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-10-20T13:57:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Array#to_s in Ruby 1.9 Head

Hi,

In message "Re: Array#to_s in Ruby 1.9 Head"
    on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:50:00 +0900, gwtmp01@mac.com writes:

|Yeah, sure, there are lots of ways to work around it but why should
|Array#to_s default to generating debugging output?  That is what
|Array#inspect is for, right?

The official purpose of #to_s method is that returning string
representation of the object.  No more, no less.  So it's up to our
expectation for the string representation of the object.  I changed
the behavior to make string representation of arrays more
distinguishable from other objects.

I don't think to_s _SHOULD_ work as replacement of Array#join.  But
there may be another reason I missed to keep it compatible with 1.8.

							matz.