From: torehalv@... (Tore Halvorsen)
Date: 2004-09-18T01:00:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Automatic class conversion / function overloading

Markus wrote:
>Which would permit types other than Fixnum, provided they implemented
>to_rational.  Taking this to its logical conclusion I would surely then
>rewrite it as:
>
>class Fixnum
>    def to_rational
>         Rational.new(self,1)
>         end
>    end
>
>class Rational
>    attr_reader :u, :d
>    def to_rational
>        self
>        end
>    def *(other)
>        other = other.to_rational
>        Rational.new(self.u * other.u, self.d * other.d)
>        end
>    end
>
>..which eliminates all class testing and is fairly easily extensible. 
>But of course others might have different solutions.

Thanks :)

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