From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-05-26T19:13:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Numeric#of

il Wed, 26 May 2004 18:55:38 +0900, Simon Strandgaard
<neoneye@adslhome.dk> ha scritto::


>
>
>Maybe it would be a good idea to extend all Numeric classes
>with a null_element.   ala traits
>
>p 9.null_element  # -> 0
>p Complex(123, 456).null_element  # -> 42
>
>when one does  "x.map{|y| y.z}"  then  map makes a range between
>the null_element and x.   

well, I'd just prefer to see it working like times((). 
I mean, walk in a range 1..n, just for integers. But it's my opinion.