toString and toString()

[valencik]

Hi 👋

We were using this repo as inspiration for another project and copied the override val toString in the following:

final class CIString private (override val toString: String)

from CIString.scala

The end result is that a CIString has both a toString val and a toString() method.
I admit, I was a tiny bit surprised by this.
I'm curious what the rationale is for having both?

[armanbilge]

Hmm, I'm pretty sure those are the same thing? In Scala vals are encoded as methods.

/*
 * Decompiled with CFR 0.151.
 */
public final class CIString {
    private final String toString;

    private CIString(String toString) {
        this.toString = toString;
    }

    public String toString() {
        return this.toString;
    }
}