From: harryo@... (Harry Ohlsen)
Date: 2001-02-01T05:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10187] Re: Require loops

>There's a built-in mechanism called 'coerce' that might do what you
>want.
>
>There's an example at
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/~poffice/mail/ruby-talk/9587

Thanks Dave!  I'm printing it out to read on the train.  It looks like
it could help.