From: "Ondřej Bílka" <neleai@...>
Date: 2011-06-18T21:04:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:37217] coerce

Hello
Are there reasons other than historic that coerce returns converted pair instead
returning directly result of operation like 
def coerce2(x,op)
	x.to_foo.call(op,self)
end

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