From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-07-15T15:13:02+09:00
Subject: Re: when will coerce be called?

Hi,

In message "when will coerce be called?"
    on 04/07/15, "Xiangyu Yang" <xiangyu.yang@gmail.com> writes:

|I want to treat "true" as 1 and "false" as 0. So I do:
|class TrueClass
|def coerce(other)
|[other,1]
|end
|end

|But the code works only for +, -; not for &, |.
|Why?

"coerce" is only used for numeric operators, not logical operators.
You can redefine "to_int" for the purpose (tough I don't recommend).

							matz.