From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-03-06T14:59:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12093] Another hook


If we're in to hooks, there's another that might be useful:

  to_bool:
     analogous to to_s, called whenever an object is used in a context 
     that requires a boolean value (this one came up on
     #ruby-lang). Masochists could use this to emulate Perl

        class Numeric
           def to_bool
             self != 0
           end
        end

        class String
          def to_bool
            self != "0"
          end
        end


This could get rolled in to the new Boolean class (or whatever it will 
be called).


(So, let's see whose idea I've stolen this time :)


Dave