I put this under chat/ discussions as this does not regard a bug, just some design/best practices.

I have program that I am building as per an exercise, and I want to use Kernel.to_string so that I don’t have to check a type later down the line.

The data being converted to string is simply going onto a table, and is being obtained from a keyword list. If the get on the keyword list yields nil the to_string will yield an empty string, and I’m fine with that.

I did not want to use inspect, as this is for logging/debugging and it seems there could be some security consequences down the line if I get into the habit of using inspect in this way, since it processes special terms and sigils.

to_string seems quite powerful, and it’s going to cut down a lot of code that I didn’t want to write and which would have seemed a bit repetitive, but should I be using it in this way?