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Ruby

Christopher Dickens
Christopher Dickens
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Posted by Christopher Dickens
Christopher Dickens
3,921 Points

He never called the to_s method, so how did 'puts bank_account' print anything? 'to_s' doesn't even include 'puts'..?

How did puts bank_account print what it did?

1 Answer

Brandon McClelland
Brandon McClelland
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Brandon McClelland
Brandon McClelland
4,645 Points

Hi Chris, the to_s method simply tells the code to treat the Object as a String. I'm not sure what you're referring to exactly since it's been awhile for me taking that course but probably bank_account already contains just a String and doesn't need any conversion. Hope that helps!