Re: Can't coerce to string

Brian Alliet <[email protected]> writes:
> I think if we follow ECMA-262's rules for Object.toString (that is,
> return a constant string in the form "[Object /classname/"], ie
> "[Object box]"). We shouldn't have any problems. Anybody who tries
> to use one of those strings as a key in a hashtable or something
> will quickly find out that they're doing something wrong.

Er, see that's the problem... they won't find out quickly.  If they're
accidentally concatenating a string somewhere along the way, then two
boxes will collide in the hash table.  But what if it's some
rarely-used hash table and the developer never runs across a test case
that tries to insert two boxes?

Nah, this is no good.

> Now... convincing Adam might be a little trickier :) If he doesn't go

;)