Michael Lazzaro:
# Piers wrote:
# I doggishly maintain my preference for treating "stringification for 
# output" and "stringification for debugging" differently, but 
# as long as 
# I can specify an "AS_STRING" (sp?) method for a class, and 
# _still_ get 
# at a debugging version to print to other (debugging-related) 
# strings, I 
# think we're all basically happy.  That implies, however, that we need 
# at least two methods per type/class:  AS_STRING, and 
# AS_DEBUG, for lack 
# of better names.  By default, the first calls the second.

I stick with .str and .id.  If you're worried about namespace pollution,
maybe prefix:~ and prefix:id can be used instead.

--Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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