From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-10-02T10:58:08+09:00
Subject: Re: thoughts on typelessness

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:33:03AM +0900, GOTO Kentaro wrote:
> I think "%s" % obj is a kind of implicit conversion. 
> 
>   % ruby -e 'now = Time.now; def now.to_s() "now" end; puts "%s" % now'
>   now
>   % 

Hmm, I almost see what you mean.

But in my mind, this is still an explicit conversion, because String#%
explicitly calls to_s().

Paul