From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2011-01-11T18:38:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34343] Re: ext/bigdecimal/lib/bigdecimal/util.rb

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:34340] Re: ext/bigdecimal/lib/bigdecimal/util.rb"
    on Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:12:23 +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@headius.com> writes:

|It may or may not be germaine to this discussion, but because JRuby
|users often want to show their intent to coerce Ruby objects to many
|different Java types, we add a "to_java" method on all objects when
|Java support is enabled. It accepts one parameter: the type of object
|to which the object should be coerced (usually a Java class). A
|similar "generic" to_* protocol for Ruby would be nice to have.
|Something like #to_any?

I'd happy to open discussion on general type conversion framework.
Open new issue please.

							matz.