From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-26T02:12:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with class, struct, and to_s

Hi,

In message "Problem with class, struct, and to_s"
    on 03/07/26, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:

|Anyone care to explain this?  I thought 'puts' always called the
|'to_s' method on its arguments.  Or are classes and structs not
|designed to be mixed?

Because your "to_s", which should return a *string* representation of
the receiver, did return an integer, so that "puts" (and its internal
conversion method) was forced to use the default string conversion
method.

							matz.