Re: Terminolgy: the verb corresponding to "toString"

Roedy Green wrote:

What is the tersest way to document a toString style method.

I would like to say something like this:

"displays" the width and height in both metric and imperial measure

But it does not display anything, just prepares for display.

I have seen people also use misleading terms like "show" and "print".

What do you use?

The best I can come up with is "format". Sun uses this is the
SimpleDateFormat class.

To me, "format" implies some sort of complicated masks or a choice of
layouts.

"prepare" is too vague.

Perhaps a phase "convert x to a string"


Is there anything wrong with what Object.toString() says?

"Returns a string representation of the object. "
...
"The toString method for class Object returns a string consisting of..."

Seems to do pretty much cover it.

--
Nigel Wade
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