From: "Vít Ondruch" <v.ondruch@...>
Date: 2013-02-28T14:23:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:53027] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #7978][Open] boolean to_i

Dne 27.2.2013 15:00, alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov) napsal(a):
> Issue #7978 has been reported by alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov).
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Feature #7978: boolean to_i
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7978
>
> Author: alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov)
> Status: Open
> Priority: Normal
> Assignee:
> Category: core
> Target version: next minor
>
>
> =begin
> The current behavior is the following:
>
>    > nil.to_i
>     => 0
>    > false.to_i
>    NoMethodError: undefined method `to_i' for false:FalseClass
>
>    > true.to_i
>    NoMethodError: undefined method `to_i' for true:TrueClass
>
> This does not look very consistent to me.  I think it could be useful to define (({false.to_i})) as 0 and (({true.to_i})) as 1.  I think those are fairly common numeric values for False and True.  These values as strings "0" and "1" are also commonly used in HTML forms to represent boolean values.
> =end
>
>
>

Actually I am wondering the opposite, why nil.to_i is possible? It does 
not make any sense to me.

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