From: Charles Nutter Date: 2011-01-12T02:30:57+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:34367] [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4264] General type coercion protocol for Ruby Issue #4264 has been updated by Charles Nutter. FWIW, JRuby's to_java does support real types and symbolic types, as in the following equivalent calls: 'foo'.to_java # defaults to java.lang.Object, so we produce a java.lang.String 'foo'.to_java :string # known "core" type name, so we know to do java.lang.String 'foo'.to_java java.lang.String # specific type ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4264 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org