From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-04-05T09:54:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Difference between to_s and to_str


In message "Difference between to_s and to_str"
    on 04/04/05, Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> writes:
|
|There has been some discussion on this topic in the thread "deciding
|between ruby and python".  It was centered around how far #join
|should go in getting what it wants (a String) from an object.  I
|detected some misunderstanding at the intention of #to_s and #to_str,
|so I hope the following is helpful (and more importantly, correct).

Does [ruby-talk:96552] help you?  "to_str" should always be part of
String method set.

							matz.