From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2011-04-27T16:50:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:35925] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4621][Assigned] NilClass#to_hash

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:35924] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4621][Assigned] NilClass#to_hash"
    on Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:46:01 +0900, Yui NARUSE <redmine@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|Is there any reason why `to_a`, `to_s`, `to_i`, `to_f`, `to_c` are all defined on `NilClass` but not for `to_hash`? If there is not, I would like to request this feature.

to_a, etc. are explicit conversion methods, whereas to_int, to_hash,
etc. are implicit conversion methods.  I don't see any good reason to
add implicit conversion methods to nil.

							matz.