From: Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas <rr.rosas@...>
Date: 2011-01-19T20:54:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34602] Re: [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4264] General type coercion protocol for Ruby

  On 19-01-2011 08:05, mathew wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:26, Charles Nutter<redmine@ruby-lang.org>  wrote:
>> Issue #4264 has been updated by Charles Nutter.
>>
>>
>> I like #to better as well, but isn't it too generic a name, sure to conflict with libraries
>> out there?
> Two-letter method names make me uneasy. How about obj.cast(Class)?
>
> Or cast_to / cast_from, as in Jonas Pfenniger's patch.
>
>
> mathew
> [ Not a big fan of attr_* either ]
>
I like the cast_to/cast_from names and I guess it avoids conflict with 
most libraries.

Rodrigo.