The toString () method’s usefulness is so proven that some languages newer than Java have taken the concept even further.

While languages like Ruby provide the pertinent information you need, why can't Java provide a decent, useable, toString() method right out of the box?

ActionScript 3.0 includes many object-oriented features that have an obvious Java-like syntax , but there are some nuances of ActionScript 's object-oriented support that are not so Java-like.