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?

The Groovy Object.inspect() method suffers the same weakness as Java’s (and Groovy’s) Object.toString(): the method is only as good as what the author of the class implemented (which might be ...

The Exception object has both a Message property and a ToString method and they return different results. Both are good, just not for the purposes that Microsoft suggests (at least, in Peter's opinion ...