Re: Can't coerce to string

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 01:14, Adam Megacz wrote:
> Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> writes:
> > You're taking away a powerful tool for people to use.
> 
> You're quite correct.
> 
> You're still not going to convince Sun to put pointer arithmetic into
> Java with that argument.

It's ok, I was mildly mistaken; you can use boxes and objects as hashes
without problem.  The issue comes when you try to concat a string to a
box ("" + box).  Tupshin has prepared a patch (that I think he's going
to refine before doing make propose-patch) that takes a better approach,
issuing a warning (that the box id as a string will not be unique)
instead of dying.
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
Online @ http://www.charlietech.com