From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-05-17T16:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Coopting String interpolation

Hi,

At Thu, 17 May 2007 13:20:14 +0900,
aurelianito wrote in [ruby-talk:251879]:
> class String
>    # do some magic here
> end
> 
> name="Aure"
> greeting="hi, #{name}"
> 
> and now greeting evaluates to "hi, AURE". Is there a method in String
> to override in order to take control of the String interpolation?

If the value isn't a String, to_s is called for it to get a
String.  Otherwise, the content is interpolated directly.
There is not a hook you want.

-- 
Nobu Nakada