Can a plain Ruby object instance return a primitive? -

how can define class instance without method call returns string representation of itself, without instance.to_s or similar being called?

is there method defines native return instance when invoked without method, can strip object handling , return primitive?

the same way string behaves:

>> str=string.new('abc') >> s "abc"

str doesn't return

#<string abc>

or it, , it, console extracting value?

how can make class('abc') same thing class.new('abc') string? sub-classing string option, i'd know alternatives.

if enter following in irb should see expected result:

class foo   def inspect     "foo"   end end  foo.new #> "foo"

but how displayed. i'm not sure want achieve.

creating string

s = string.new('abc')

is constructing 2 strings: 1 literal 'abc' , 1 call new, pointless unless want create duplicate.

perhaps if tell bit more want achieve can better answer.

LP