Justin Johansson wrote:
I assert that the semantics of "toString" or similarly named/purposed
methods/functions in many
PL's (including and not limited to D) is ill-defined.
To put this statement into perspective, I would be most appreciative of D NG
readers
responding with their own idea(s) of what the semantics of "toString" are (or
should be)
in a language agnostic ideology.
If there are more than, say, two or three different views on the said semantics
then my
"ill-definition" assertion is surely correct.
If there are no replies on this matter, then guess I'm left concludeless.
Just thinking in the language round-up that this is (just another) one of the
things
we should address as a community.
So what does "toString" mean to you?
It's a hack from the early days of D. Should be unavailable unless the
-debug flag is set, to discourage people from using it. I hate it.
