On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:45:29AM -0400, Jon Parise wrote:

> I chose '__string' to follow the existing convention for "special"
> method names (e.g. __construct, __clone, __call).  Also, I suspect
> that many developers are already using toString() methods in their
> classes, and I'm not sure we want to use them directly with having
                                                         ^without

> them think about the semantics of their decision first.
  
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