From: John Mair <jrmair@...>
Date: 2010-11-02T11:36:20+09:00
Subject: Implicitly convert Symbols to Strings?

Is there a good reason why Symbols are not implictly converted to
Strings ?

The following does not work for example:

    eval(:self) #=> Error: can't convert Symbol to String

But if we do the following:

    class Symbol
      def to_str
        to_s
      end
    end

Then it works:

    eval(:self) #=> main

In my opinion this implicit conversion should happen and would be
useful in some circumstances. Why isn't this supported out of the box?

John

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