Michael Lazzaro:
# Piers wrote:
# I doggishly maintain my preference for treating "stringification for
# output" and "stringification for debugging" differently, but
# as long as
# I can specify an "AS_STRING" (sp?) method for a class, and
# _still_ get
# at a debugging version to print to other (debugging-related)
# strings, I
# think we're all basically happy. That implies, however, that we need
# at least two methods per type/class: AS_STRING, and
# AS_DEBUG, for lack
# of better names. By default, the first calls the second.
I stick with .str and .id. If you're worried about namespace pollution,
maybe prefix:~ and prefix:id can be used instead.
--Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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