spir wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:21:48 +0100
> Don <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> spir wrote:
>>> On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:17:57 -0800
>>> Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You're not losing _anything_ out of the deal except that you wouldn't do 
>>>> obj.toString(). Instead you'd do to!string(obj).
>>> I'm usually not using toString(), it's supported by the language. What 
>>> about format("%s:%s", a,b)? Will it still call toString implicitely, or 
>>> writeTo a buffer, or what else?
>>>
>>> Anyway, I cannot see any advantage in deprecating toString() for every 
>>> programmer in every use case, just for hypothetical efficiency issues
>> The efficiency issues are important,
> 
> 1. Please bring concrete cases of apps that do not work well because of 
> toString and would work fine just by replacing it with writeTo. 

        Please bring a concrete example of code that would suffer from the
proposal.

                Jerome
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