Returns whether self and other are bytewise equal.

NOTE This does not call T#==, so it works even if self or other does not represent a valid instance of T. If validity is guaranteed, call to_reference == other.to_reference instead to use T#==.

Returns false.

Appends this object's value to hasher, and returns the modified hasher.

Usually the macro def_hash can be used to generate this method. Otherwise, invoke #hash(hasher) on each object's instance variables to accumulate the result:

def hash(hasher)
  hasher = @some_ivar.hash(hasher)
  hasher = @some_other_ivar.hash(hasher)
  hasher
end

Returns a T whose instance data refers to self.

WARNING The caller is responsible for ensuring that the instance data is correctly initialized and outlives the returned T.

Prints a nicely readable and concise string representation of this object, typically intended for users, to io.

This method is called when an object is interpolated in a string literal:

"foo #{bar} baz" # calls bar.to_io with the builder for this string

IO#<< calls this method to append an object to itself:

io << bar # calls bar.to_s(io)

Thus implementations must not interpolate self in a string literal or call io << self which both would lead to an endless loop.

Also see #inspect(IO).