From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-10-04T08:31:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Just Found Integer()

Hi,

Methods with class name constant e.g. Integer, String, etc. are
converters in convention.

In message "Re: Just Found Integer()"
    on Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:04:22 +0900, "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@runbox.com> writes:

|But that sort of begs the question. Why not Integer['42abc'] ?

It had proposed before.  But I felt something wrong with that where we
had both Array() (converter) and Array[] (initializer).

							matz.