From: Jonathan Tran <lists@...>
Date: 2012-09-13T12:05:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Pathname#to_str withdrawn in 1.9?

It's definitely a judgment call. Not sure if this helps you, but I think
most people use string interpolation, which calls #to_s implicitly. So I
think this would work just fine in 1.9:

require "pathname"
f = Pathname("howdy")
p "well #{f}"

> The use cases are like this:
>
> require "pathname"
> f = Pathname("howdy")
> p ("well " + f)
>
> Under 1.8.7 that's "well howdy". Under 1.9.3 it's an error, "can't
> convert Pathname into String." One wants to say: "Sure you can, just
> call to_s like you used to!"
>
> It's the breakage I don't understand. Why do our Benevolent Masters
> think this is just okay? I'll never find all the code where I'm doing
> this sort of thing... m.

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