Re: Can't coerce to string

I quoteth the great Tupshin:

<tupshin> charlieg: i think your mail is correct. the bug is that
putting a box in an array implicitly calls toString which it shouldn't
do

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 21:29, Brian Alliet wrote:
> > 1) why isn't the output guarranteed to be unique?
> > 2) is it not possible for the output to be unique?
> 
> Java doesn't provide any way to get a unique string from an object. We could
> construct our own ID by assigning each box a number or something, but that
> would be ugly.
> 
> > 3) the reason people do this is because it's _very_ easy.  You're
> > taking away a powerful tool for people to use.
> 
> Not at all. org.xwt.js allows you to use any object as a key in a hashtable
> (even boxes). The only thing this takes away from you is the ability to do
> ibex.log.info("Box is: " + box) The output from this isn't very helpful
> anyway so I don't think this is a problem.
> 
> -Brian
> 
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