From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2010-06-18T09:39:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:30804] Re: PATCH: ENV['key'] = non_string

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:30802] Re: PATCH: ENV['key'] = non_string"
    on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:34:19 +0900, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> writes:

|ENV["foo"] = 1
|
|or:
|
|ENV["foo"] = true
|
|I actually use those a fair amount.

Hmm, I think internal #to_s bites you, rather than buys you, except
for a few cases you've mentioned above.  So I object to add it to the
core.  But at the same time you are free to use your #method_missing
helper to ENV, which is convenient, though not worthyto add in to the
core.

Treating Numbers/Boolean values specially might be better, but complex.

							matz.