Re: Can't coerce to string

Charles Goodwin wrote:
> You lost me.  So objects do have a unique id, but it's not a string...
> and if you then try to print out said object, it throws up the error?

Right. There is no way to get a unique string from an object. If you try to
turn an object into a string somehow an exception is thrown rather than
returning a possibly non-unique string.

> If so, I'm not convinced it is working like that as I'm encountering
> errors using boxes/js-objects as keys in a hash table without
> involving
> them in any manner that might otherwise require them to be recognised
> as
> a string.

Interesting. Does one of the test cases in the bug report demonstrate this?
I'll take a look at it in a few hours.

-Brian