From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-10-25T02:04:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [rcr] String#first / String#last

On Sunday 24 October 2004 12:48 pm, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
| Seems like a lot overhead though when one considers this kind of thing is
| going on throughout the system.

Doh. I forgot my main point. I wanted to say that one might think Integer() 
would take care of all this, but imagine my suprise when I did this:

irb(main):001:0> Integer(:a)
=> 12169

T.