From: Charles Nutter Date: 2011-01-13T16:27:46+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:34466] [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4264] General type coercion protocol for Ruby Issue #4264 has been updated by Charles Nutter. Jonas: Cool! This is basically the exact protocol we're talking about here, just with different names. It actually also does Jim's suggestion, having the class-side to_ methods include the class name, as in your example of to_string. I like it. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4264 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org