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"

I've seen "stringize" used as a verb, but I don't like
it much. Besides, speakers of Q.E. will want to spell it
"stringise" and there'll be no end of fruitless debatez.

Something like "Converts this Thing to a String" or
"Renders this Thing as a String" or "Returns a String
representing this Thing" would suit me better.

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Eric Sosman
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