From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2004-09-18T00:15:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Automatic class conversion / function overloading

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:44:46 +0900, Tore Halvorsen
<torehalv@jaguar.stud.ntnu.no> wrote:
> I agree, but when trying to make a class for rational numbers, I
> wanted to be able to multiply both rational and fixnums to it.

1) There is a Rational class in Ruby already.

2) Look at #coerce (I believe it's either Fixnum#coerce or
Numeric#coerce). This will allow you to coerce numbers into different
forms.

-austin
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