From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-04-24T23:29:04+09:00
Subject: Re: How secure is replacing "to_s" method?



On Apr 24, 9:04 am, "Iņaki Baz Castillo" <i...@aliax.net> wrote:
> Hi, I've a class like this:
>
> class Request
>         attr_accessor :method, :code
>         def to_s
>                 "#{method} #{code}"
>         end
> end
>
> So if I print directly an instance I see a string containing both attributes:
>
> message = Request.new
> message.method = "INVITE"
> message.code = "200"
> puts message
> => "INVITE 200"
>
> This is really nice but I'm not sure of how secure it's. Could
> replacing "to_s" method change any other behaviour?

It's fine for your own classes.

T.