Semantics of toString

Lutger lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 03:46:16 PST 2009


Don wrote:
...
> 
> There is a definite use for such as thing. But the existing toString()
> is much, much worse than useless. People think you can do something with
> it, but you can't.
> eg, people have asked for BigInt to support toString(). That is an
> over-my-dead-body.

Since you are in the know and probably the biggest toString() hater around: 
are there plans (or rejections thereof) to change toString() before D2 turns 
gold? Seems to me it could break quite some code.




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