[Ironruby-core] Comparing CLR strings and Ruby strings - a slightly surprising behaviour

[Thibaut Barrère]

Hi,

while writing specs for Magic, I noticed that:

instance_from(MenuItem, "Hello").text.*to_s*.should == "Hello"

to_s is required to get the assertion to pass. The following will return
false:

button = Button.new
button.text = "Hello"
puts button.text == "Hello"

So I guess that CLR strings cannot be compared to Ruby strings unless to_s
is applied.

While not a big deal, it's a bit surprising.

Is it something that is likely to change ?

cheers,

-- Thibaut
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