From: mengx@...
Date: 2001-12-31T23:25:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29856] A Bug or something else?

Normally

a = nil
"#{a}"      => ""   (likely a.to_s is called)

After I disabled several methods for NilClass as follows:

	class NilClass
	
		private :to_s, :to_a, :to_i
	
	end

the above still holds true. So should it be considered a bug?
What I am thinking is that it is dangerous to silently convert "nil"
to "" in most cases. Can it be changed, at least when I disable the "to_s"
method ?

Thanks

-Ted