From: Dale Martenson <dmartenson@...>
Date: 2004-05-27T02:57:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Numeric#of

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Mitchell [mailto:quixoticsycophant@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:27 PM
> 
> The "root cause" of this RCR (and others), I think, is the desire to
> create an Enumerable out of an Integer.  Integers themselves are not
> Enumerable (nor should they be), but it is often desirable to think of
> them as such.  

100% agreement. 

It doesn't make sense having the proposed #of be part of Numeric. So no
matter the solution, it should be added to Integer.
 
> It is clear there is a desire to convert from Integers to Enumerables
> freely.  I think it is time to bring this into canon -- and I would
> like to call it Integer#enum.
> 

This is a best solution I have read so far. It avoids the confusion of 'of'
and not only provide a facility to achieve the 'of' functionality, but also
allow an Integer to take on all the characteristics of an Enumerable. 

This also appears syntactically 'clean'.

The only possible change I would make would be in the name. Integer#to_enum
This seems to follow and the other "to_xxx" named methods.