From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2003-02-12T11:53:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Operator reordering, good idea? (was Re: ruby-dev summary 19457-19539)

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302112122120.19718-100000@candle.superlink.net>,
  dblack@candle.superlink.net writes:

> Well, I would have thought this:
>
>   Exception.new("a") == "a"
>
> :-)  But seriously...  my problem with that example being "true" is
> that it's only using Exception#to_s after doing a kind of
> right-to-left backtracking, *after* seeing that a String object is --
> no, *was* -- needed.  My instinct is to say: if you get as far as
> having sent a message to an object, it's too late to reconsider what
> that object is.

Since Exception.new("a") == "a" never returns true, your problem is
not exist.
-- 
Tanaka Akira